The Heart in Winter (Paperback) Kevin Barry (author)

He was ready to die for love. He 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. He is a doper and a drinker and a fearsome degenerate. His 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. But a posse of deranged Cornish gunsmen are in hot pursuit of the lovers, and closing in fast . . .

Publisher information
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 9781837260799
Number of pages: 224
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 14 mm
Weight: 163 g
Language: English
Edition: Main