Charming Billy

Name: Charming Billy
Author: Alice McDermott
ISBN: 9780385333344

Alice McDermott

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Charming Billy

Alice McDermott

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#220 of 8,085 books · #108 in Fiction

Won the National Book Award for Fiction (1998). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 1 other award.

Everyone loved him. If you knew Billy at all, then you loved him. The late Billy Lynch's family and friends, a party of forty-seven, gather at a small bar and grill somewhere in the Bronx to remember better times in good company, and to redeem the pleasure of a drink or two from the miserable thing that a drink had become in Billy's life. His widow, Maeve, is there and everyone admires the way she is holding up, just as they always admired the way she cared for Billy after the alcohol had ruined him. But one cannot think of Billy Lynch's life, one's own relentless affection for him, without saying at some point, "There was that girl. The Irish girl." And one can't help but think that the real story of his life lay there.

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