TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barry,Kevin
TI  - The Heart in Winter: a novel 
SN  - 9780385550598
PY  - 0000///July 92024///
CY  - New York
PB  - Doubleday
KW  - Irish
KW  - Montana
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Outlaws
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Adultery
KW  - Butte (Mont.)
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Western fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Novels
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Romance fiction
N1  - "Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Canongate Books Ltd., London, in 2024."; new book 2024 summer
N2  - 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
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