The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones
By: Jack Wolf
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 549
ISBN-13: 9780701186876; 9780701186883
Subjects: Surgery; Fiction; History; Anatomists; Superstition; General Surgery; Dissection
Description: The year is 1750. Tristan Hart, precociously talented student of medicine practising under the legendary Dr William Hunter. His obsession is the nature of pain and preventing it; the relationship between mind and matter and the existence of God. A product of the Age of Enlightenment, he is a rational man on a quest to cut through darkness and superstition with the brilliant blade of science. Tristan Hart, madman and deviant. His obsession is the nature of pain, and causing it. A product of an age of faeries and goblins, gnomes and shape-shifting gypsies, he is on a quest to arouse the perfect scream and slay the daemon Raw Head who torments his dark days and long nights.