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The Heart in Winter
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Butte, Montana, October 1891, and 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 of the...
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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
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Butte, Montana, October 1891, and 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 of the town, 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 extremely 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 bad-lands of Montana and Idaho, and 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...
The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry captures the essence of its historical setting and the tumultuous passions of its characters.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781837262380
Publisher: Canongate Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 04 June 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Canongate Books
Edition: Country Special - ANZ Exclusive
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 135.0mm
Height: 214.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 224
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About the Author
Kevin Barry is the author of three novels and three short 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. He also works as a playwright and screenwriter, and he lives in County Sligo, Ireland.
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