{"product_id":"the-tale-of-raw-head-and-bloody-bones-9780099565956","title":"The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe year is 1750. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMeet Tristan Hart, precociously talented student of medicine. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis obsession is the nature of pain and preventing. He is on a quest to cut through superstition with the brilliant blade of science.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMeet Tristan Hart, madman and deviant\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis obsession is the nature of pain, and causing it. He is on a quest to arouse the perfect scream and slay the daemon Raw Head who torments his days and nights. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTroubled visionary, twisted genius, loving sadist. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat is real and what imagined in Tristan Hart's brutal, beautiful, complex world?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJack Wolf's extraordinary 18th-century story does exactly what it says on the cover. It's a tale, in the grandest sense of the word. It's raw, at times even extreme. It explores elegantly the eternal dialogue between the head and bones. And it's quite startlingly, and beautifully, bloody ... \u003cb\u003eJack Wolf delivers his tale with passion, precision and poetry. Those of strong stomach and vivid imagination will find glittering delights in here\u003c\/b\u003e -- Lloyd Shepherd * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eThis gloriously over-egged pudding of a first novel is set in 1750, and crammed with chunks of history, philosophy and folklore ... \u003cb\u003eWolf is a superb storyteller who sucks the reader into his fascinating imagination\u003c\/b\u003e -- Kate Saunders * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eThis moving tale of metamorphosis and blurred identity, otherness and liminality ... \u003cb\u003eAn extraordinarily controlled and artful book\u003c\/b\u003e -- Suzi Feay * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eSadist, frequenter of brothels, afflicted by delusions and murderous intentions,\u003cb\u003e Tristan Hart is among the most striking and memorable anti-heroes to have appeared in recent British fiction\u003c\/b\u003e -- Jonathan Barnes * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003eThis tale of a conflicted medical man opens in 1750 and evokes historical fiction such as Susanna Clarke’s \u003ci\u003eJonathan Strange\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u0026amp; Mr Norrell\u003c\/i\u003e, Andrew Miller’s \u003ci\u003eIngenious Pain\u003c\/i\u003e, and Peter Ackroyd’s \u003ci\u003eHawksmoor\u003c\/i\u003e.  \u003ci\u003eThe Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones\u003c\/i\u003e, Jack Wolf’s debut novel, can stand alongside these modern classics ... This is an extraordinarily controlled and artful book -- Suzy Feay * Financial Times *","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49399823434071,"sku":"9780099565956","price":14.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-tale-of-raw-head-and-bloody-bones-9780099565956","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}