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The Heart in winter / Kevin Barry. - Edinburgh : Canongate, 2024. - [8], 214 stron ; 22 cm.
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Barry Kevin (1969- ). Autor
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Książki Proza
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Literatura irlandzka
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Imigracja Irlandczycy Amerykanie Romans Ucieczki Pościg Montana (Stany Zjednoczone ; stan) Idaho (Stany Zjednoczone ; stan)
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Książka w języku angielskim. 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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