Author Alice McDermott

Alice McDermott's Charming Billy

The Leonard Lopate Show | Oct 24, 2014

Alice McDermott's 1998 novel Charming Billy won the National Book Award for fiction. It's about first love, buried secrets, and the life of an Irish American drinker in Queens. Family and friends gather to comfort Billy Lynch's widow and remember his life, trading tales and painting a portrait of Billy, who was a loyal friend, loving husband, enduring romantic, and an incurable alcoholic.

Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
(Picador Modern Classics/Courtesy of the publisher)

 

 

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