The heart in winter a novel
"A love story about outlaws in a community of Irish workers in Montana"--
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Doubleday,
[2024]
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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| Summary: | "A love story about outlaws in a community of Irish workers in Montana"-- 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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| Item Description: | "Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Canongate Books Ltd., London, in 2024." |
| Physical Description: | 243 pages ; 20 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780385550598 0385550596 |
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