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Charming Billy
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Author : Alice McDermott
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2009-11-24
Charming Billy written by Alice McDermott and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-24 with Fiction categories.
Charming Billy is the winner of the 1998 National Book Award for Fiction. 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. 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.
Charming Billy
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Author : Alice McDermott
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2013-11-21
Charming Billy written by Alice McDermott and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-21 with Business & Economics categories.
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 'A masterpiece' Time Out A moving novel about love and grief by the New York Times bestselling author The late Billy Lynch's family and friends gather at a small bar and grill in the Bronx to remember better times. His widow, Maeve, is there and everyone admires the way she is holding up, just as they always admired the way she cared for Billy after the alcohol had ruined him. But one cannot think of Billy without saying at some point, 'There was that girl'. On Long Island one summer years ago, Billy fell in love with a beautiful Irish girl working for a wealthy Park Avenue family. Billy wanted to marry Eva, but then she went back to Ireland. And then Billy's cousin Dennis had to break the terrible news: Eva had died of pneumonia. Billy never got over it. Anybody who knew him would tell you so. Billy began courting Maeve not long after, but for the rest of their lives, he, she and Dennis shared a hidden, twisted grief.
Charming Billy
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Author : Alice McDermott
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 1998
Charming Billy written by Alice McDermott and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Fiction categories.
Everyone loved him. If you knew Billy at all, then you loved him. The late Billy Lynch's family and friends, a party of forty-seven, gather at a small bar and grill somewhere in the Bronx to remember better times in good company, and to redeem the pleasure of a drink or two from the miserable thing that a drink had become in Billy's life. His widow, Maeve, is there and everyone admires the way she is holding up, just as they always admired the way she cared for Billy after the alcohol had ruined him. But one cannot think of Billy Lynch's life, one's own relentless affection for him, without saying at some point, "There was that girl. The Irish girl". And one can't help but think that the real story of his life lay there.
Charming Billy
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Author : Alice McDermott
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Charming Billy written by Alice McDermott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with categories.
" Tout le monde l'aimait. Si vous l'aviez connu, vous aussi vous l'auriez aimé. " Après l'enterrement de Billy Lynch, ses amis et sa famille se réunissent dans un bar du Bronx pour évoquer les bons moments passés ensemble. Ils redécouvrent le plaisir de boire un verre alors que l'alcool était devenue un vrai problème dans la vie de Billy. Sa veuve, Maeve, est là. Elle a toujours veillé sur Billy et chacun admire son courage. Mais personne ne peut évoquer Billy sans penser à cette jeune Irlandaise. Car un été, à Long Island, il y a si longtemps, il est tombé éperdument amoureux de la jeune Eva. Il voulait l'épouser, elle est retournée en Irlande. Malgré sa promesse, elle n'est jamais revenue. Dennis, le cousin de Billy, n'a pas osé avouer la vérité. Il a préféré lui dire qu'elle était morte d'une pneumonie. Ce sera à la fille de Dennis de découvrir cette vérité et de révéler à chacun combien cet amour perdu les a tous liés au-delà de ce qu'ils pouvaient même imaginer.
Charming Billy
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Author : Billy Guajardo
language : en
Publisher: XinXii
Release Date : 2024-06-17
Charming Billy written by Billy Guajardo and has been published by XinXii this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-17 with Fiction categories.
A young boy in the eighth grade will fall head over heels for a young girl in his classroom. He will try everything to win her smile. He will need her help one day in algebra. Which in turn she will want his help to move furniture from her old home to her new home. By then He will have tried everything that he could to win her love as a girlfriend. Instead, she will tell him we can be friends. One day you will need me for more than that. Until that day Cindy I will wait until you need me. I hope I see you again, goodbye. As time goes on, she found herself a woman in a world of laws and careers. She will rise from a Foot Soldier in the police to a Captain. Men in the crime world will oppose her and her policemen. She will find herself in part of a crime that could take and might have happened if it were not the boy that had a crush on her. Now a grown young man Billy has become a career soldier with the skill that a man twenty years in the service has. He will find her on the news. He will have reason to Remember what he told her. Only she will not remember until he left back for duty to his career. Until her childhood memories remind her of the young boy that had a childhood crush on her named Billy. She will remember what he told he would. Name, Charming Billy.
A Charming Billy
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Author : Alice McDermott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997-12-01
A Charming Billy written by Alice McDermott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-12-01 with categories.
Charming Billy
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Author : Peg Kehret
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
Charming Billy written by Peg Kehret and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with American drama categories.
A Study Guide For Alice Mcdermott S Charming Billy
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Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
language : en
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Release Date : 2016-06-29
A Study Guide For Alice Mcdermott S Charming Billy written by Gale, Cengage Learning and has been published by Gale, Cengage Learning this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
A Study Guide for Alice McDermott's "Charming Billy," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
The Ninth Hour
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Author : Alice McDermott
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2017-09-19
The Ninth Hour written by Alice McDermott and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-19 with Fiction categories.
A magnificent new novel from one of America’s finest writers—a powerfully affecting story spanning the twentieth century of a widow and her daughter and the nuns who serve their Irish-American community in Brooklyn. On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens a gas tap in his Brooklyn tenement. He is determined to prove—to the subway bosses who have recently fired him, to his pregnant wife—that “the hours of his life . . . belonged to himself alone.” In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Saviour, an aging nun, a Little Nursing Sister of the Sick Poor, appears, unbidden, to direct the way forward for his widow and his unborn child. In Catholic Brooklyn in the early part of the twentieth century, decorum, superstition, and shame collude to erase the man’s brief existence, and yet his suicide, though never spoken of, reverberates through many lives—testing the limits and the demands of love and sacrifice, of forgiveness and forgetfulness, even through multiple generations. Rendered with remarkable delicacy, heart, and intelligence, Alice McDermott’s The Ninth Hour is a crowning achievement of one of the finest American writers at work today.
At Weddings And Wakes
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Author : Alice McDermott
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2009-11-24
At Weddings And Wakes written by Alice McDermott and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-24 with Fiction categories.
The three children of an Irish-American family in Long Island are witnesses to the cycles of dissatisfaction, bitterness and recurring affection that make up the lives of their extended family. A tender, sad and funny book from the author of the National Book Award-nominated That Night and Charming Billy
