{"product_id":"the-heart-in-winter","title":"The Heart in Winter","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR FROM THE ECONOMIST AND THE MINNESOTA STAR TRIBUNE - Award-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. \"An absolute belter of a book!\" - Anne Enright \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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 humorist, and a true poet of the human heart.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51657989292312,"sku":"9780593687383","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0693\/3649\/8456\/files\/imageloader_744d641e-ea9e-4627-b777-0a5ef277ca3f.jpg?v=1770661230","url":"https:\/\/www.stopandreadbooks.com\/products\/the-heart-in-winter","provider":"Stop \u0026 Read Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}