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The Heart in Winter Kevin Barry

The Heart in Winter By Kevin Barry

The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry

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A savagely funny, achingly beautiful tale set in the Wild West, from the Booker-longlisted author of Night Boat to Tangier

The Heart in Winter Summary

The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry

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

What 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 . . .

The Heart in Winter Reviews

A great big rollicking ballad of a novel. A love story, and a slice of history, in a language as close to song as literature will ever get -- COLUM McCANN
A violent, extravagant adventure set in 1890s Montana . . . [Barry's] thrilling best * * The Times * *
Holy damn, it's good. Includes (arguably) THE finest American frontier 'shroom scene in the Western canon -- DAVID MITCHELL
An absolute belter of a book -- ANNE ENRIGHT
A glorious book with all the heart and excitement of a classic Western, couched in the mixture of lyrical style and offbeat comedy that has become Barry's trademark * * Daily Telegraph * *
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 McGREGOR
It takes a sublime artist like Kevin Barry to map the wildest outposts of the human heart. He captures his poet bandit's spirit through language that is consistently original, consistently exhilarating -- CLAIRE KILROY
Another bloody brilliant little symphony from Barry. Gorgeous -- MAX PORTER
A haunting, hypnotic love story of two damaged souls. Barry's talent is breath-taking - he is a true original and, once again, words obey his call. This is a propulsive read from a writer at the height of his powers -- MARY COSTELLO
If the Coen brothers were to write a novel it would be this. Barry has conjured a magnetic protagonist in Polly -- SHEENA PATEL

About Kevin Barry

Kevin Barry is the author of four novels and three 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. His novel, Night Boat to Tangier, was an Irish number one bestseller, was longlisted for the Booker Prize and named one of the Top Ten Books of the Year by the New York Times. He also works as a playwright and screenwriter, and he lives in County Sligo, Ireland.

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NGR9781805302117
9781805302117
1805302116
The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry
Kevin Barry
New
Hardback
Canongate Books
2024-06-06
224
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