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Charming Billy

A young woman, cousin to the late Billy Lynch who has just died of alcoholism, traces the story of his lost love, discovering her own father's role in trying to keep Billy from being hurt by the truth about Eva, and contemplating the effect her father's lie had on the rest of the family.

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  • "A young woman, cousin to the late Billy Lynch who has just died of alcoholism, traces the story of his lost love, discovering her own father's role in trying to keep Billy from being hurt by the truth about Eva, and contemplating the effect her father's lie had on the rest of the family."@en
  • ""A young woman, cousin to the late Billy Lynch who has just died of alcoholism, traces the story of his lost love, discovering her own father's role in trying to keep Billy from being hurt by the truth about Eva, and contemplating the effect her father's lie had on the rest of the family.""@en
  • "The late Billy Lynch's family and friends have gathered at a small Bronx bar to comfort his widow, Maeve, and to eulogize one of the last great romatics."
  • "AAprès l'enterrement de Billy Lynch, ses amis et sa famille se réunissent dans un bar du Bronx. L'alcool ayant été le drame et le ciment de son destin énigmatique, ils se souviennent autour d'un verre des bons moments passés avec lui. Un roman sur la confusion de la réalité et de la fabulation. National Book Award 1998."
  • "Billy Lynch's family and friends have gathered at a Bronx bar. They have come to comfort his widow and to eulogize one of the last great romantics, trading tales of his famous humor, immense charm, and unfathomable sorrow. - Back cover of book."@en
  • "After Billy dies of alcoholism, his best friend's daughter pursues the truth behind Billy's tragic love for a visiting Irish girl fifty years before and the mysterious bonds between Billy, her father, and the woman Billy eventually married."
  • "Alice McDermotts' mesmerizing fourth novel, Charming Billy, attacks the heart with the bittersweet remnants of an Irish American alcoholic. The collection of friends and family set to say their final goodbyes at Billys funeral recapture the essence of his passionate life. He lived his days saturated in alcohol, torturing himself over his lost love. But could a resolution with his beloved Eva have saved him thirty years of self-imposed depression? Should his cousin Dennis have lied about Evas' death?"@en
  • "Après l'enterrement de Billy Lynch, ses amis et sa famille se réunissent dans un bar du Bronx. L'alcool ayant été le drame et le ciment de son destin énigmatique, ils se souviennent autour d'un verre des bons moments passés avec lui. Un roman sur la confusion de la réalité et de la fabulation. National Book Award 1998."
  • "Tijdens een begrafenis haalt een familie uit de Iers-Amerikaanse gemeenschap in New York herinneringen op aan de gestorvene en zijn hopeloze liefde voor zijn jeugdvriendin."
  • ""Alice McDermott tells the story of Billy Lynch within the complex matrix of a tightly knit Irish American community, in a voice that is resonant and full of deep feeling. Charming Billy is a masterpiece about the unbreakable bonds of memory and desire."--Publisher's website."@en
  • "Alice McDermott tells the story of Billy Lynch within the complex matrix of a tightly knit Irish American community, in a voice that is resonant and full of deep feeling. Charming Billy is a masterpiece about the unbreakable bonds of memory and desire. Charming Billy."@en
  • ""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. 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."--"@en
  • "Billy Lynch's family and friends have gathered at a small Bronx bar. They have come to comfort his widow and to eulogize one of the last great romantics, trading tales of his famous humor, immense charm, and unfathomable sorrow. As they linger on into this extraordinary night, their voices form Billy's tragic story and their mourning becomes a gentle homage to all the lives in their small community fractured by grief, shattered by secrets, and sustained by the simple dream of love."@en
  • "Charming Billy is an award-winning novel set in the New York Irish community. It tells of the love of a man for a woman who dies, of how his cousin breaks the news to him and of how he never gets over it to his dying day."@en
  • "When the late Billy Lynch's relatives and friends gather together to keep his memory alive, stories are woven and memories relived detailing his life in the close Irish-American community and the intricate feelings that resurface."@en

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  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"@es
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Domestic fiction, American"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"

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  • "迷人的比利 = Charming Billy"
  • "Un Hombre con encanto"
  • "Charming Billy"@en
  • "Charming Billy"
  • "בילי המקסים"
  • "Mi ren de Bili = Charming Billy"
  • "Il nostro caro Billy"
  • "Il nostro caro Billy"@it
  • "Un hombre con encanto"
  • "Un hombre con encanto"@es
  • "Bili ha-maḳsim"
  • "Charming Bill"
  • "Billy's charme"
  • "迷人的比利"
  • "Irischer Abschied : Roman"
  • "Charming Billy roman"
  • "Mi ren de bi li"
  • "Charming Billy : [a novel]"
  • "CHAARMING BILLY"
  • "Charming Billy : roman"
  • "Charming billy"@en
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