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Charming Billy
de McDermott, Alice
- Usado
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- Very Good-
- ISBN 10
- 038533334X
- ISBN 13
- 9780385333344
- Librería
-
Shell Lake, Wisconsin, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Delta Publishing. Very Good-. 1999. Paperback. 038533334X . 10 oz.; 243 pages; PB Delta Printing VG- aged light reading/shelf wear. Billy Lynch's family and friends have gathered at a small Bronx bar. They have come to comfort his widow and to eulogize one of the last great romantics, trading tales of his famous humor, immense charm, and unfathomable sorrow. As they linger on into this extraordinary night, their voices form Billy's tragic story and their mourning becomes a gentle homage to all the lives in their small community fractured by grief, shattered by secrets, and sustained by the simple dream of love. .
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
- Mistymornin Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 28963
- Título
- Charming Billy
- Autor
- McDermott, Alice
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good-
- ISBN 10
- 038533334X
- ISBN 13
- 9780385333344
- Editorial
- Delta Publishing
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1999
- Palabras clave
- 038533334X
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Literature/Fiction;
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Mistymornin Books
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