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Original Title:	Charming Billy
ISBN:	2264031115 (ISBN13: 9782264031112)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Eva Hayes, Billy (Charming Billy)
Setting:	United States of America Ireland
Literary Awards:	National Book Award for Fiction (1998), Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2000), American Book Award (1999), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2000)

Charming Billy

Alice McDermott

Paperback | Pages: 246 pages

Rating: 3.43 | 9759 Users | 860 Reviews

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Title	:	Charming Billy
Author	:	Alice McDermott
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 246 pages
Published	:	Irish-American Experience (fiction) 66 books — 43 voters National Book Award Winners 239 books — 184 voters
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. Novels

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The late Billy Lynch's family and friends gather at a small bar and grill in the Bronx to remember better times. 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 without saying at some point, 'There was that girl'. On Long Island one summer years ago, Billy fell in love with a beautiful Irish girl working for a wealthy Park Avenue family. Billy wanted to marry Eva, but then she went back to Ireland. And then Billy's cousin Dennis had to break the terrible news: Eva had died of pneumonia. Billy never got over it. Anybody who knew him would tell you so. Billy began courting Maeve not long after, but for the rest of their lives, he, she and Dennis shared a hidden, twisted grief.

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Charming Billy is a National Book Award Winner. In this novel, McDermott develops the entirety of the book on remembrances after the funeral of Billy. Billy Lynch is hopelessly alcoholic, hopelessly Irish Catholic, and hopelessly romantic (Yeats being a favorite which he has been able to recite since childhood). And he is loved by all. Though much around him is, indeed, less than encouraging, Billy never loses hope personally; however, his impact on so many others is deep and wide, generous and

This is the story of Billy Lynch, an Irish American from Queens, NY and his many family members and friends. Billy was jilted as a young man and never quite got over the pain, as he drank himself to death many years later. The story was told from the point of view of Billy's cousin Dennis' daughter, which is really confusing and difficult to figure out until at least halfway through the story.I noticed that both descriptions of this novel (the one on Goodreads and the one on the back cover of

I feel like I should give myself 5 stars for the effort in finishing this. The book is all backstory that is as slow as molasses, with a climax that is a fizzle and then ends with excrutiating slow detail of real estate. The detail of the real estate makes me think this was the authors childhood home which would be of interest to only her own family.

This was a reread. Years ago I read this one when it was new. It didn't connect as Alice McDermott for some reason. After I read Someone and loved it so much, I should have recalled this much earlier novel of hers.Honestly, this time around I really did laugh at a few points. Especially upon the noting that the Protestants must know Our Lord a lot better since they call him by His first name all the time. But I also remembered the ending about 1/2 way through, so that took some wind out of the

Charming Billy is more sculpture than novel. The characters dont so much develop as exist like creatures suspended in amber, unyielding to the chaos of time, love, and grief. Unlike traditional stories chronicling how characters react to stimuli, studies in personal evolution, this book illustrates the impossibility, for better or worse, of change. The advancement of time only reinforces the essential substance of character and temperament. The novel opens with a debate at Billys funeral

Those of us who claim exclusivity in love do so with a liars courage: there are a hundred opportunities, thousands over the years, for a sense of falsehood to seep in, for all that we imagine as inevitable to become arbitrary, for our history together to reveal itself as only a matter of chance and happenstance, nothing irrepeatable, or irreplaceable, the circumstantial mingling of just one of the so many million with just one more.Charming Billy is written with all the tenderness merited by its

Those of us who claim exclusivity in love do so with a liars courage: there are a hundred opportunities, thousands over the years, for a sense of falsehood to seep in, for all that we imagine as inevitable to become arbitrary, for our history together to reveal itself as only a matter of chance and happenstance, nothing irrepeatable, or irreplaceable, the circumstantial mingling of just one of the so many million with just one more.Charming Billy is written with all the tenderness merited by its