{"product_id":"the-heart-in-winter-9780593915318","title":"The Heart in Winter","description":"\u003cb\u003eA BEST BOOK OF 2024 FROM THE ECONOMIST AND THE MINNESOTA STAR TRIBUNE \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAward-winning writer Kevin Barry's first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romantic tale of young lovers on the lam in 1890s Montana. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A wedding of Cormac McCarthy with Flann O'Brien; a western but also the most Irish of novels; a tragedy written as farce . . . inspiring joy with every incident, every concept, every sentence.\"--\u003ci\u003e The Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOctober 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this love story for the ages--lyrical, profane and propulsive--Kevin Barry has once again demonstrated himself to be a master stylist, an unrivalled humourist, and a true poet of the human heart.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKEVIN BARRY is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eNight Boat to Tangier\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBeatlebone, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eCity of Bohane\u003c\/i\u003e as well as three story collections including \u003ci\u003eThat Old Country Music.\u003c\/i\u003e His stories and essays have appeared in the New \u003ci\u003eYorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e and elsewhere. He also works as a playwright and screenwriter lives in County Sligo, Ireland.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Random House Large Print Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50621281632530,"sku":"9780593915318","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fa110593-8e14-41e5-919c-64b32b75f344.jpg?v=1750159780","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-heart-in-winter-9780593915318","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}