THE HEART IN WINTER - BARRY, KEVIN

Autor: BARRY, KEVIN

Editorial: CANONGATE

EAN: 9781837260799

THE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORICAL NOVEL OF THE YEARTHE INSTANT IRISH TIMES BESTSELLERPICKED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN, OBSERVER, IRISH TIMES, INDEPENDENT, IRISH INDEPENDENT, IRISH EXAMINER, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, SCOTSMAN, THE TIMES AND ECONOMISTAN i-PAPER AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK TO READ THIS SUMMERSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 WALTER SCOTT PRIZEWINNER OF THE HWA GOLD CROWN'An absolute belter of a book' ANNE ENRIGHTHe was ready to die for love.\n\nHe just needed to find the right girl. October, 1891. Tom Rourke is a poet struggling to make a life amongst the Irish migrant workers in Butte, Montana.\n\nHe is a doper and a drinker and a fearsome degenerate.\n\nHis life is heading nowhere fast. That is until he meets Polly Gillespie, the new bride of a devout mine captain, and a thunderbolt love affair takes spark. Tom and Polly strike out west on a stolen horse.\n\nBut a posse of deranged Cornish gunsmen are in hot pursuit of the lovers, and closing in fast .