Kevin Barry The Heart in Winter (Hardback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Heart in WinterCondition: NewISBN-10: 1805302116EAN: 9781805302117ISBN: 9781805302117Edition: MainPublisher: Canongate BooksFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 06/06/2024Description: THE INSTANT IRISH TIMES BESTSELLERA GUARDIAN BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024A NEW STATESMAN FICTION HIGLIGHT OF 2024AN OBSERVER FICTION TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024AN IRISH TIMES FICTION TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024What 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 . . .Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 220mmItem Length: 144mmAuthor: Kevin BarryGenre: FictionTopic: Historical FictionItem Width: 20mmItem Weight: 331gRelease Year: 2024 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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