{"product_id":"the-heart-in-winter-kevin-barry-9780593915318","title":"The Heart in Winter","description":"\u003cb\u003eA MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK: \u003ci\u003eTHE LA TIMES, THE GUARDIAN, \u003c\/i\u003eAND MORE! - Award-winning writer Kevin Barry's first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romantic tale of young lovers on the lam in 1890s Montana. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A wedding of Cormac McCarthy with Flann O'Brien; a western but also the most Irish of novels; a tragedy written as farce . . . inspiring joy with every incident, every concept, every sentence.\"--\u003ci\u003e The Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOctober 1891. A hard winter approaches across the Rocky Mountains. The city of Butte, Montana 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 badlands of Montana and Idaho, and briefly an idyll of wild romance perfects itself. But a posse of deranged Cornish gunmen are soon in hot pursuit and closing in fast. With everything to lose and the safety and anonymity of San Francisco still a distant speck on their horizon, the choices they make will haunt them for the rest of their lives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this love story for the ages--lyrical, profane and propulsive--Kevin Barry has once again demonstrated himself to be a master stylist, an unrivalled humourist, and a true poet of the human heart.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kevin Barry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0593915313\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593915318\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Diversified Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/09\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.25h x 6.13w x 0.51d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLarge Print\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Kevin Barry","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45899015356671,"sku":"9780593915318","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4a6cca58-b517-4d8b-9f6d-5605ee4ec6c0.jpg?v=1721377667","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-heart-in-winter-kevin-barry-9780593915318","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}