Charming Billy by Alice Mcdermott
Billy 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 humor, 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, Charming Billy, 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.
Charming Billy is the winner of the 1998 National Book Award for Fiction.
McDermott, Alice: - Alice McDermott is the author of several novels, including The Ninth Hour; Someone; After This; Child of My Heart; Charming Billy, winner of the 1998 National Book Award; and At Weddings and Wakes--all published by FSG. That Night, At Weddings and Wakes, and After This were all finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and elsewhere. For more than two decades she was the Richard A. Macksey Professor of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University and a member of the faculty at the Sewanee Writers Conference. McDermott lives with her family outside Washington, D.C.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780374120801 |
| ISBN 10 | 0374120803 |
| Title | Charming Billy |
| Author | Alice Mcdermott |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc |
| Year published | 1997-12-01 |
| Number of pages | 280 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2000, Short-listed for United States National Book Awards: Fiction 1998 |
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