by Alice McDermott · Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc · tapa dura · ISBN 9780374120801
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«Charming Billy» is the novel by Alice McDermott, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in hardback (280 pages, in English).
After Billy Lynch's death, his family and friends gather in a Bronx bar to remember him and support his widow, Maeve. Through anecdotes and silences, they reconstruct the life of a beloved man, marked by alcoholism and the memory of Eva, the Irish girl; thus emerges a choral portrait of memory, love, and the bonds that sustain a community.
Novel winner of the 1998 National Book Award and the American Book Award, finalist for the Dublin Literary Award. First hardback edition from Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Aimed at book clubs and readers of literary fiction interested in memory, grief, and Irish-American community life.
Alice McDermott is an American writer and university professor. She is the author of nine novels and a collection of essays. For her 1998 novel Charming Billy she won an American Book Award and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction and was a finalist for the International Dublin Literary Award and the Orange Prize. That Night, At Weddings and Wakes, and After This were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Her most recent novel, Absolution was awarded the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award.
