THE TALE OF RAW HEAD & BLOODY BONES
by WOLF , Jack
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0701186879
- ISBN 13
- 9780701186876
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Synopsis
The explosive and controversial debut novel by a major new voice in fiction Meet Tristan Hart, a brilliant young man of means. The year is 1751, and at the age of twenty he leaves home to study medicine at the great hospital of St. Thomas in London. It will be a momentous year for the intellectually ambitious Mr. Hart, who, in addition to being a student of Locke and Descartes and a promising young physician, is also, alas, psychotic. He is obsessed with the nature of pain and medically preventing it, but—equally strong and much harder to control—is his obsession with causing it. Desperate to understand his deviant desires before they are his undoing, he uses the new tools of the age—reason and science and skepticism—to plumb the depths of his own dark mind. Profoundly imaginative, unexpectedly funny, and with a strange but moving love story at its heart, The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones is an oddly beautiful and daring novel about the relationship between the mind and body, sex, madness, pain, and the existence of God.
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- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 125600
- Title
- THE TALE OF RAW HEAD & BLOODY BONES
- Author
- WOLF , Jack
- Format/Binding
- Hard Back
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0701186879
- ISBN 13
- 9780701186876
- Publisher
- CHATTO AND WINDUS
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2013
- Size
- 240x160 mm Approx
- Keywords
- Author Jack Wolf , The Tale of Raw Head & Bloody Bones , Set in 1750 , Tristan Hart , Twisted Genius , Loving Sadist ,Complex World
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