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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.” - Elle"Alice McDermott's eloquent and unsettling new novel begins with a death - and a distinctly inconvenient resurrection... Like its title character, McDermott's novel works on our sympathies with an insistent and ingrati

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Author

McDermott, Alice

Publisher

Picador Modern Classics/Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781429929707

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Contemporary Fiction

Rating

4 / 5 (712 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14