Barry, Kevin,  1969- <br/><br/>
The Heart in Winter :  a novel / 
Kevin Barry. 
 - First American edition. 
 - 243 pages  20 cm. 
<br/><br/> "Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Canongate Books Ltd., London, in 2024."  new book 2024 summer. 
<br/><br/> October 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780385550598 0385550596 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Irish--Montana--Fiction<br/>Man-woman relationships--Fiction<br/>Outlaws--Fiction<br/>Irish--Fiction<br/>Immigrants--Fiction<br/>Adultery--Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Butte (Mont.)--History--19th century--Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Western fiction.<br/>Novels.<br/>Historical fiction.<br/>Romance fiction.