Tragedy and farce collide in this dazzling tale of lovers on the run in Montana The hero of Kevin Barry’s new novel, The Heart in Winter, is a dope-fiend Irishman haphazardly subsisting in the mining town of Butte, Montana, in the 1890s. Tom Rourke has a poor excuse for a job as assistant to a poor... read full story
"set apart from the hoarse and laughing crowd. He was at a distance of artistic remove from it was what he felt."