The Heart in Winter

AN i-PAPER AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK TO READ THIS SUMMER A GUARDIAN BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024 A NEW STATESMAN FICTION HIGLIGHT OF 2024 AN OBSERVER FICTION TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024 AN IRISH TIMES FICTION TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024 ''An absolute belter of a book'' ANNE ENRIGHT He was ready to die for love. He just needed to find the right girl. October, 1891. Tom Rourke is a poet struggling to make a life amongst the Irish migrant workers in Butte, Montana. He is a doper and a drinker and a fearsome degenerate. His life is heading nowhere fast. That is until he meets Polly Gillespie, the new bride of a devout mine captain, and a thunderbolt love affair takes spark. Tom and Polly strike out west on a stolen horse. But a posse of deranged Cornish gunsmen are in hot pursuit of the lovers, and closing in fast . . .

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• Autori: Kevin Barry
• Editore: Canongate Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.04.2025
• EAN: 9781837260799
• ISBN: 978-1-83726-079-9
• Pagine: 214
• Dimensioni: 129 mm x 198 mm x 14 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; FICTION / Historical / General, Historical fiction