Description: Charming Billy by Alice McDermott Winner of the National Book Award and a New York Times bestseller, Charming Billy is "Alice McDermotts 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 Billys life and death, and what does it mean to mythologize a friends suffering? Beautifully written and teeming with fine portraits of Irish-American life in New York, Charming Billy is Alice McDermotts 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Alice McDermott is the author of several novels, including The Ninth Hour; Someone; After This; Charming Billy, winner of the 1998 National Book Award; At Weddings and Wakes; and That Night--all published by FSG. That Night, At Weddings and Wakes, and After This were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Harpers Magazine, and other publications. For more than two decades she was the Richard A. Macksey Professor for Distinguished Teaching in 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. Review "This is fiction as good as it gets." --USA Today "A luminous and affecting novel." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "Theres 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 "McDermott demonstrates anew that she is a writer in a league all her own." --People "...a rueful shrug of a novel whose strong, shrewd opening pages should be taught in college writing classes." --Time Review Quote "This is fiction as good as it gets." -- USA Today "A luminous and affecting novel." -- Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "Theres 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 "McDermott demonstrates anew that she is a writer in a league all her own." -- People "...a rueful shrug of a novel whose strong, shrewd opening pages should be taught in college writing classes." -- Time Details ISBN1250881366 Author Alice McDermott Short Title Charming Billy Pages 256 Language English Year 2023 ISBN-10 1250881366 ISBN-13 9781250881366 Format Paperback Publication Date 2023-04-04 Subtitle A Novel Publisher Picador USA Imprint Picador USA DEWEY FIC Audience General UK Release Date 2023-04-04 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:141664558;
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