Verlag | Canongate Books |
Auflage | 2024 |
Seiten | 224 |
Format | 13,6 x 2,0 x 22,2 cm |
Print PDF | |
Gewicht | 331 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
EAN | 9781805302117 |
Bestell-Nr | 80530211UA |
A GUARDIAN BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024
A NEW STATESMAN FICTION HIGLIGHT OF 2024
AN OBSERVER FICTION TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024
AN IRISH TIMES FICTION TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024
'An absolute belter of a book' ANNE ENRIGHT
What if we ride out tonight?
What if we ride out and never once look back?
October, 1891. Butte, Montana. 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, 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 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. Briefly an idyll of wild r omance 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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A great big rollicking ballad of a novel. A love story, and a slice of history, in a language as close to song as literature will ever get COLUM McCANN