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The Heart in Winter
The Heart in Winter: A Novel | Kevin Barry
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A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK Award-winning writer Kevin Barrys first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romantic tale of young lovers on the lam in 1890s 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. In this love story for the ageslyrical, profane and propulsiveKevin Barry has once again demonstrated himself to be a master stylist, an unrivalled humourist, and a true poet of the human heart.
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MeganAnn
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Mehso-so

It might be a “it‘s not you it‘s me” thing but I didn‘t really like this one. Based on the premise, I thought I was getting a western with doomed lovers set in the Montana winter 1891. What I got technically followed the description but I never really felt like I was reading any of those things. Lovely lyrical writing but surface level with no sense of place. I never truly felt like I understood the characters & they could have been anywhere. ⬇️

MeganAnn I didn‘t hate it and I wanted to keep reading to the ending, but I didn‘t really enjoy it either. Someone else might love it… it‘s just not for me. 3⭐️ for the lyrical writing style and interjections of humor. (edited) 2mo
squirrelbrain I just read this too and I feel exactly the same way that you did. 🤷‍♀️ 2mo
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Chiperskee
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Pickpick

Hard to put down once the love story kicks in.

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shawnmooney
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A couple milestones

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