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Charming Billy: A Novel (Picador Modern Classics) by Alice McDermott; OverDrive, Inc is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A New York Times bestseller, winner of the National Book Award and a finalist for the International Dublin IMPAC Literary Award, Charming Billy is "Alice McDermott's masterpiece" (NPR) and now a Picador Modern Classic. “A luminous and affecting novel.” - Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesBilly Lynch's family and friends have gathered to comfort his widow, and to pay their respects to one of the last great romantics. As they trade tales of his famous humour, immense charm, and consuming sorrow, a complex portrait emerges of an enigmatic man, a loyal friend, a beloved husband, an incurable alcoholic. Alice McDermott's striking novel is a study of the lies that bind and the weight of familial love, of the way good intentions can be as destructive as the truth they were meant to hide.“There's no one like Alice McDermott for catching the ebullient particulars of the Irish-American sensibility...her touch is light as a feather, her perceptions purely accurate.” - ElleBeautifully written and teeming with fine portraits of Irish-American life in New York, Charming Billy is Alice McDermott’s masterful and beloved novel about how a community can pin its dreams on one man, and how good

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Author

Alice McDermott; OverDrive, Inc

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781429929707

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Contemporary Fiction

Rating

4 / 5 (712 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14