The Heart in Winter: A Novel by Kevin Barry Hardcover Book

Description: The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry "A love story about outlaws in a community of Irish workers in Montana"-- FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK: THE LA TIMES, THE GUARDIAN, AND MORE! • 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."A wedding of Cormac McCarthy with Flann OBrien; a western but also the most Irish of novels; a tragedy written as farce . . . inspiring joy with every incident, every concept, every sentence."— The GuardianOctober 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 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. Author Biography KEVIN BARRY is the author of the novels Night Boat to Tangier, Beatlebone, and City of Bohane as well as three story collections including That Old Country Music. His stories and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta and elsewhere. He also works as a playwright and screenwriter lives in County Sligo, Ireland. Review NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE LA TIMES, THE GUARDIAN, THE NEW STATESMAN, THE IRISH TIMES, THE JOURNAL, AND THE OBSERVER "Exhilarating...What starts as a gritty depiction of one man going nowhere soon becomes a gripping tale of two lovers on the run...Both an Irish-flavored western fraught with danger and brutality and a love story filled with caustic humor and pathos....Barrys signature touches predominate and render the narrative propulsive and immersive." —The Washington Post "A rare thing…This short, tight novel pulls one so swiftly along that it can be read in a summers afternoon. And then once more, slowly." —Wall Street Journal "Like its Montana setting, Kevin Barrys novel is brutal and gorgeous... a sense of foreboding is shot through with dark humour." —The Economist "There will be gun battles and knife fights. The moon will rise above dark plateaus and dreams will reach as far as the Pacific coast…Of course in the hands of Kevin Barry it almost doesnt matter. With language that is somehow both raw and lyrical, the real point is that we ride out to meet our fate." —The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "A dazzling tale of lovers on the run in Montana . . .A wedding of Cormac McCarthy with Flann OBrien . . . inspiring joy with every incident, every concept, every sentence." —The Guardian"A dazzling tale of lovers on the run in Montana . . . Barry has written us a love story that never seems false or cheap, and an adventure where the violence is never gloating or desensitised. Its a wedding of Cormac McCarthy with Flann OBrien; a western but also the most Irish of novels; a tragedy written as farce . . . inspiring joy with every incident, every concept, every sentence."— The Guardian"All that should be required for you to saddle up and ride hard toward your nearest bookstore on July 9 is this: Kevin Barry does Deadwood...Barry never disappoints, but this one is a pure pleasure. A thrilling, tumescent, poetically vulgar, big-hearted romp of a novel…utterly electrifying."— LitHub"It takes a sublime artist like Kevin Barry to map the wildest outposts of the human heart. He captures his poet bandits spirit through language that is consistently original, consistently exhilarating. "—Claire Kilroy"An absolute belter of a book." —Anne Enright, author of The Gathering"Rip-roaring...The pleasure never lets up in Barrys masterful novel."— Publishers Weekly (starred review)"The Irish writers humor and prose magic give the genres conventions a refreshing spin…Barrys fans will be delighted and many a newbie beguiled." — Kirkus (starred review) "Rollicking … Barrys style seems magnificently effortless as Tom and Polly meet some strange and curious characters on their travels, and it seems Barry can make anything compelling. A sterling work of historical fiction and a picaresque love story that is brutal, hilarious, and fabulously entertaining." — Booklist (starred review) "Holy damn, its good." —David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas "Barrys sentences dazzle like lightning strikes yet he is equally gifted as a storyteller. Humorous, though ultimately profoundly moving, The Heart in Winter further confirms Barrys place as one of our greatest contemporary writers. –Ron Rash, author of Serena "Another bloody brilliant little symphony from Kevin Barry" —Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers "I was spellbound…Funny, brutal, romantic and cinematic." —The Bookseller"A sterling work of historical fiction and a picaresque love story that is brutal, hilarious, and fabulously entertaining."— Booklist (starred review)Wondrous and bold. Im in awe of Kevin Barry and endlessly inspired by his work —Lisa McInerney, author of The Rules of Revelation"Kevin Barry lights out for the territory and once again comes back with a shining nugget of gold. The Heart in Winter is a glorious and haunted yarn, with all the elements – the doomed lovers, the bounty hunters, the knife-fights and whisky-soaked songs – brought to mysterious life by the heft and polish of the Barry sentence. Marvelous." — Jon McGregor, author of If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things "A haunting, hypnotic love story of two damaged souls. Barrys talent is breath-taking—he is a true original and, once again, words obey his call. This is a propulsive read from a writer at the height of his powers." — Mary Costello, author of Academy Street "[B]y turns funny and tragic, full of typically outrageous figures and sublime writing." — The Observer "Barrys voice…propels us through [his] work, through paragraphs punctuated by turns of phrase that deliver little jolts of pleasure." — Francine Prose, author of A Changed Man Details ISBN0385550596 Author Kevin Barry Pages 256 Publisher Random House USA Inc Year 2024 ISBN-13 9780385550598 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2024-07-09 Imprint Doubleday & Co Inc. 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