The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry
THE INSTANT IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER 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 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 . . .
A violent, extravagant adventure set in 1890s Montana. . [Barry's] thrilling best * * The Times * *
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
An atmospheric tale of romantic runaways from an 1890s US mining town that has an epic feel . . . a book where everything springs alive . . . has a dash of Cormac McCarthy and Charles Portis -- JOHN SELF * * Observer * *
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
Proof of the author's genius -- STUART KELLY * * Scotsman * *
[Barry] is constitutionally incapable of delivering a dull sentence -- MARTIN DOYLE * * Irish Times * *
Gripping and touching . . . the best of Kevin Barry's novels * * Irish Examiner * *
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
An atmospheric tale of romantic runaways from an 1890s US mining town that has an epic feel . . . a book where everything springs alive . . . has a dash of Cormac McCarthy and Charles Portis -- JOHN SELF * * Observer * *
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
Proof of the author's genius -- STUART KELLY * * Scotsman * *
[Barry] is constitutionally incapable of delivering a dull sentence -- MARTIN DOYLE * * Irish Times * *
Gripping and touching . . . the best of Kevin Barry's novels * * Irish Examiner * *
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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| ISBN 13 | 9781805302117 |
| ISBN 10 | 1805302116 |
| Title | The Heart in Winter |
| Author | Kevin Barry |
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| Binding type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Canongate Books |
| Year published | 2024-06-06 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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