The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry Paperback Book

Description: The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry A savagely funny, achingly beautiful tale set in the Wild West, from the award-winning author of Night Boat to Tangier FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher 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... Author Biography 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. Review Kevin Barry lights out for the territory and once again comes back with a shining nugget of gold. The Heart in Winter is a glorious and haunted yarn, with all the elements - the doomed lovers, the bounty hunters, the knife-fights and whisky-soaked songs - brought to mysterious life by the heft and polish of the Barry sentence. Marvellous - JON McGREGORPraise for Kevin Barry: Barry is a clairvoyant narrator of the male psyche and a consistent lyrical visionary - GuardianOne of the most abundantly talented novelists writing today - Daily TelegraphIf prose were gold and diamonds thered be thousands of hell-bent prospectors heading for the Black Hills of Kevin Barrys glistening, sparkling novel - SEBASTIAN BARRYBarry is such a deft and generous writer - New York Times Details ISBN1837262381 Author Kevin Barry Format Paperback NZ Release Date 2024-06-03 Pages 224 Publisher Canongate Books Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781837262380 Publication Date 2024-06-04 Imprint Canongate Books Place of Publication Edinburgh Country of Publication United Kingdom Audience General UK Release Date 2024-06-04 Edition Description Country Special - ANZ Exclusive ISBN-10 1837262381 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161484613;

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