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Butte, Montana, October 1891, and a hard winter approaches across the Rocky Mountains. The city 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 balladmaker 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 bad-lands of Montana and Idaho, and briefly an idyll of wild romance perfects itself. But a posse of deranged Cornish gunsmen are soon in hot pursuit of the lovers, and closing in fast...

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Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Fiction & related items Historical fiction

• Plný název: The Heart in Winter
• Autor: Kevin Barry
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Pevná
• Počet stran: 224
• EAN: 9781805302117
• ID: 44695686
• Nakladatelství: Canongate Books Ltd
• Rozměry: 220 × 144 mm
• Datum vydání: 06. June 2024

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