Charming Billy
by McDermott, Alice
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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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1998. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0374120803 . A first edition/first printing in Fine condition. In Very Good+ dust-jacket with two 1" closed tears to front. Signed by author Alice McDermott directly on the title page; Alice McDermott's account of Billy Lynch, with the matrix… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket. 1998. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0374120803 . A handsome first edition/first printing in unread Very Fine condition in Very Fine dust-jacket. Signed by author Alice McDermott directly on the title page; Alice McDermott's account of Billy Lynch, with the matrix of a tightly knit Irish… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1998. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0374120803 . A first edition/first printing in Fine condition. In Very Good+ dust-jacket with two closed tears to front cut-out, tape-repaired on verso. Signed by author Alice McDermott directly on the title page; Alice McDermott's account of Billy Lynch,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Good (ex-library)/Very Good. Hardcover. 280 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. First Edition. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in good (ex-library) condition and comes in very good dust jacket. More specifically: Ex-library with usual marks, stamps, stickers. Boards have no wear, rubbing or… Read more about this item Item Price
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