![]() ![]() ![]() While working here, he meets his wife, Maeve, who loves him dearly and is a good wife to him. This story forms the basis of the narrative, and we look back forty years, to 1945, when it all begins.īilly works in a shoe store run by his stepfather to pay off the loan. Only his cousin, Dennis, knows the truth-and he plans on sharing it with everyone. Others think it’s more likely the death of his first love, Eva, made him ill. Some of his family believe alcoholism is a disease and nothing caused it. One question they all have is what drove Billy to alcoholism, and what issues he was fighting that they didn’t know about. Billy Lynch drinks himself into an early grave, and his family and friends gather in a New York bar after his funeral to reminisce about his life and what he meant to them all. ![]() The novel opens with the aftermath of the title character’s funeral. McDermott is a three-time Pulitzer Prize nominee. The book is praised for its treatment of ordinary life and its trials, and what it means to step back and reassess your life. It was nominated for the 2000 Orange Prize for Fiction. First published in 1998 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Charming Billy received the 1998 National Book Award for Fiction, and the 1999 American Book Award. It tells the story of an ordinary man and his lifelong alcohol addiction after the death of his first and true love. Charming Billy is an adult contemporary novel by American author Alice McDermott. ![]()
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