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Charming Billy
de Alice Mcdermott
- Usado
- Estado
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 038533334X
- ISBN 13
- 9780385333344
- Librería
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Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Dell Publishing. Used - Good. All orders guaranteed and ship within 24 hours. Your purchase supports More Than Words, a nonprofit job training program for youth, empowering youth to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a business.
Sinopsis
Alice McDermott is a novelist and short story writer who won the national Book Award for Fiction in 1998 with her perceptive novel, Charming Billy . In it, Billy Lynch has just passed away, and as forty-seven of his best friends and family gather; it is revealed that he died from alcoholism. Charming Billy spans three generations of Irish Americans living in Queens, NY, from the 1940’s to the end of the twentieth century. The unnamed narrator is the grown daughter of Billy’s cousin Dennis. As the friends gather to comfort his widow they begin to trade stories of his immense charm, poetic gentle soul and his famous humor. The book explores problems that characterized the working-class Irish in that time period, such as poverty, fading identity and alcoholism. A superbly written, captivating tale.
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Detalles
- Librería
- More Than Words Inc.
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- WAL-F-4c-000792
- Título
- Charming Billy
- Autor
- Alice Mcdermott
- Estado del libro
- Used - Good
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 038533334X
- ISBN 13
- 9780385333344
- Editorial
- Dell Publishing
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición
- 1999-01-12
Términos de venta
More Than Words Inc.
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Sobre el vendedor
More Than Words Inc.
Miembro de Biblio desde 2016
Waltham, Massachusetts
Sobre More Than Words Inc.
More Than Words empowers youth who are in foster care, court-involved, homeless or out of school to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a business. MTW believes that when system-involved youth are challenged with authentic and increasing responsibilities in a business setting, and are given high expectations and a culture of support, they can and will address personal barriers to success, create concrete action plans for their lives, and become contributing members of society. More Than Words began as an online bookselling training program for youth in DCF custody in 2004 and opened its vibrant bookstore on Moody St in Waltham in 2005 and added its Starbucks coffee bar in 2008. MTW replicated its model in the South End of Boston in 2011, thereby doubling the number of youth served annually.
