Book review: The best of Kevin Barry’s novels to date

'The Heart in Winter' is a realistic take on the Western, avoiding cliches and emphasising the dangers and discomforts of outlaw life

Kevin Barry visited Butte, Montana, in 1999, a locality long associated with the hardy miners of the Beara peninsula, who moved there en masse when the copper mines of Allihies closed down. File picture: Michael Mac Sweeney/Provision

• The Heart in Winter 
• Kevin Barry 
• Canongate, €16.99