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Charming Billy

Charming Billy

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Charming Billy

by Alice McDermott

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ISBN 10
0965868850
ISBN 13
9780965868853
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UsedGood. Cover has some rubbing and edgewear. Access codes, CD's, slipcovers and other accessories may not be included.

Synopsis

Alice McDermott is a novelist and short story writer who won the national Book Award for Fiction in 1998 with her perceptive novel, Charming Billy . In it, Billy Lynch has just passed away, and as forty-seven of his best friends and family gather; it is revealed that he died from alcoholism. Charming Billy spans three generations of Irish Americans living in Queens, NY, from the 1940’s to the end of the twentieth century. The unnamed narrator is the grown daughter of Billy’s cousin Dennis. As the friends gather to comfort his widow they begin to trade stories of his immense charm, poetic gentle soul and his famous humor. The book explores problems that characterized the working-class Irish in that time period, such as poverty, fading identity and alcoholism. A superbly written, captivating tale.

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Goodwill US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
Charming Billy
Author
Alice McDermott
Book Condition
UsedGood
Quantity Available
1
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10
0965868850
ISBN 13
9780965868853
Publisher
Farrar, Straus Giroux
Place of Publication
New York
This edition first published
1999

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Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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