![]() If you knew Billy at all, then you loved him. Charming Billy (Book): McDermott, Alice: Everyone loved him. Charming Billy is the winner of the National Book Award for Fiction. A "New York Times" bestseller, winner of the National Book Award and a finalist for the International Dublin IMPAC Literary Award, "Charming Billy" is "Alice McDermott's masterpiece" (NPR) and now a Picador Modern Lynch's family and friends have gathered to comfort his widow, and to pay their respects to one of the last great romantics.5/5(5).Īlice 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. 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. ![]() Ĭharming Billy (Book): McDermott, Alice: "Billy Lynch's family and friends have gathered to comfort his widow, and to pay their respects to one of the last great romantics. ![]() By Farrar, Straus and Giroux in New York. ![]()
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