Charming Billy

1st Edition

A Novel

Alice McDermott
eISBN-13: 9781429929707

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Charming Billy is the winner of the 1998 National Book Award for Fiction.

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.

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.

Sold By Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBNs 1429929707, 9781429929707, 9780374120801, 9781250058324
Language eng
Number of Pages 280
Edition 1st