The Heart in Winter 9781805302117 Hardback

The Heart in Winter

Barry, Kevin (author)

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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 . . .

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  • 3
    The heart in winter

    Posted by Anita Fagan on 15th Jul 2024

    The foul swearing content - especially at the beginning of the novel totally spoilt my enjoyment- but I did read to the end - a powerful evocation of Montana. As the historical wild west.

  • 5
    A lovely, funny, heartswelling masterpiece

    Posted by Doug Kessler on 13th Jul 2024

    I’ve loved Kevin Barry’s previous books—especially the short stories. But this is my new favourite novel by any writer, ever: a moving, funny, shaggy, romantic, gripping, inspiring story that made me read chunks out loud to my wife. I should have just read her the whole book. Every page is great. If…

    I’ve loved Kevin Barry’s previous books—especially the short stories. But this is my new favourite novel by any writer, ever: a moving, funny, shaggy, romantic, gripping, inspiring story that made me read chunks out loud to my wife. I should have just read her the whole book. Every page is great. If you don’t love this, I don’t love you.

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Authors:
Barry, Kevin
Format:
Hardback
ISBN:
9781805302117
Publication Date:
06/06/2024
Publisher:
Canongate Books
Year Published:
2024
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Number of Pages:
224
Place of Publication:
Edinburgh
Language:
English
SKU:
9781805302117

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