The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry

Description: 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...

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EAN: 9781837262380

UPC: 9781837262380

ISBN: 9781837262380

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Format: Paperback, 224 pages

Author: Kevin Barry

Book Title: The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry

Item Height: 2 cm

Item Length: 21.5 cm

Item Weight: 0.17 kg

Item Width: 13.5 cm

Language: Eng

Publisher: Canongate Books