The heart in winter
Barry, Kevin, 1969-2024
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"A savagely funny, achingly beautiful tale set in the Wild West, from the award-winning author of Night Boat to Tangier. 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 ballad maker 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..."-- Provided by publisher.
Main title:
The heart in winter / Kevin Barry.
Author:
Barry, Kevin, 1969-, author
Work:
Imprint:
Edinburgh : Canongate, 2024.©2024
Collation:
214 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9781837262380 (paperback)
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
473782