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Há 2 dias · July 7, 2024 at 9:00 a.m. EDT. As darkness falls one evening in October 1891 in Butte, Mont., Tom Rourke, an Irishman “twenty-nine years to heaven,” heads out to see what the night has to ...
Há 16 horas · July 9, 2024. Kevin Barry has, for almost two decades now, been heralded as one of Ireland’s most dazzlingly gifted fiction writers. Whether he’s conjuring a dystopian city on Ireland’s Atlantic coast, imagining John Lennon’s post-Beatles island pilgrimage, or following a group of middle-aged ale enthusiasts on a train journey to Wales ...
Há 5 dias · From the very beginning of “The Heart in Winter”, a tragedy seems to be in the offing. This is typical of Kevin Barry, who writes lyrically of melancholic Irishmen.
Há 4 dias · “The Heart in Winter” is a rare thing. The Irish writer Kevin Barry’s fourth novel is a strongly plotted book that offers a doomed love affair, horses, high mountains, bad weather, a...
Há 2 dias · This is just the kind of feeling, an almost other-worldly passion, that strikes the hearts of Tom Rourke and Polly Gillespie in the Irish writer Kevin Barry’s latest novel, “The Heart in ...
Há 4 dias · The Heart in Winter is, at times, a very bleak and remorseless tale. It’s a very powerful reading experience, one not to be taken as a light piece of fiction, but it’s worth the investment. Montana in 1891 springs to life from the pages as Kevin Barry depicts a cast of strong characters set against the harsh and ofttimes brutal backdrop of life in the wild west.
Há 16 horas · 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.
