5/11/2023 0 Comments Charming billy book![]() ![]() ![]() He is loved - and mourned, even when alive - by his whole family, most particularly by his cousin Dennis, who is closer than a brother.īilly has, however, "ripped apart, plowed through, as alcoholics tend to do, the great deep tightly-woven fabric of affection that is some part of the emotional life, the life of love, of everyone." For as the title suggests, Billy is charming, not just as a quintessential Irish talker, teller of tales or scraps of poems, but as a listener. In it, Billy Lynch is the alcoholic center of an Irish Catholic family in Queens. ![]() "Charming Billy," her fourth novel, is this kind of book, exquisitely presented. Alice McDermott's novels ("A Bigamist's Daughter," "At Weddings and Wakes") are like family albums, each scene hazy with the yellow light of history, nostalgic as faded Polaroids. ![]()
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