Binding: Paperback
Description: Winner of the National Book Award and a New York Times bestseller Charming Billy is Alice Mc Dermott's masterpiece (NPR). In a small bar somewhere in the Bronx a funeral party has gathered to honor Billy Lynch. Through the night his friends and family will weave together the tale of a husband lover dreamer and storyteller but also that of a hopeless drunk whose immense charm was but a veil over a lifetime of secrets and all - consuming sorrow. As they comfort his widow the gentle Maeve they remember as well his first love Eva who died of pneumonia and whose ghost haunted his marriage and drove him to the bottle. Who is truly responsible for Billy's life and death and what does it mean to mythologize a friend's suffering? Beautifully written and teeming with fine portraits of Irish - American life in New York Charming Billy is Alice Mc Dermott's masterful and beloved novel about how a community can pin its dreams to one man and how good intentions can be as destructive as the truth they were meant to hide.
Title: Charming Billy A Novel
Author(s): Mcdermott Alice
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250881366
Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/4/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction