Everyone loved him. If you knew Billy at all, then you loved him. The late Billy Lynch's family and friends, a party of forty-seven, gather at a small bar and grill somewhere in the Bronx to remember better times in good company, and to redeem the pleasure of a drink or two from the miserable thing that a drink had become in Billy's life. His widow, Maeve, is there and everyone admires the way she is holding up, just as they always admired the way she cared for Billy after the alcohol had ruined him. But one cannot think of Billy Lynch's life, one's own relentless affection for him, without saying at some point, "There was that girl. The Irish girl". And one can't help but think that the real story of his life lay there.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374120803
ISBN-13
9780374120801
eBay Product ID (ePID)
380203
Product Key Features
Book Title
Charming Billy
Author
Alice Mcdermott
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Cultural Heritage, Sagas, General
Publication Year
1997
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
280 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
16.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3563.C355c48 1998
Reviews
". . . a rueful shrug of a novel whose strong, shrewd opening pages should be taught in college writing classes." --Time