The Heart in Winter
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The Heart in Winter
The Heart in Winter
A savagely funny, achingly beautiful tale set in the Wild West, from the award-winning author of Night Boat to Tangier
The instant Irish Times bestseller
A Guardian book to look out for in 2024
A New Statesman fiction highlight of 2024
An Observer fiction to look out for in 2024
An Irish Times fiction to look out for in 2024
What if we ride out tonight?
What if we ride out and never once look back?
October, 1891. Butte, Montana. A hard winter approaches across the Rocky Mountains. The city is rich on copper mines and rampant with vice and debauchery among a hard-living crowd of immigrant Irish workers.
Here we find Tom Rourke, a young poet and balladmaker, but also a doper, a drinker, and a fearsome degenerate. Just as he feels his life is heading nowhere fast, Polly Gillespie arrives in town as the new bride of the devout mine captain Long Anthony Harrington.
A thunderbolt love affair takes spark between Tom and Polly, and they strike out west on a stolen horse, moving through the badlands of Montana and Idaho. Briefly, an idyll of wild romance perfects itself. But a posse of deranged Cornish gunsmen are soon in hot pursuit of the lovers and closing in fast...
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781805302117
Publisher: Canongate Books
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 06 June 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Canongate Books
Edition: Main
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 136.0mm
Height: 222.0mm
Weight: 331g
Pages: 224
About the Author
Kevin Barry is the author of four novels and three story collections. His awards include the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award and the Lannan Foundation Literary Award. His stories and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta and elsewhere. His novel, Night Boat to Tangier, was an Irish number one bestseller, was longlisted for the Booker Prize and named one of the Top Ten Books of the Year by the New York Times. He also works as a playwright and screenwriter, and he lives in County Sligo, Ireland.
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