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Charming Billy: A Novel (Picador Modern Classics) (origineel 1998; editie 2014)

door Alice McDermott (Auteur)

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Celebrating the Twentieth Anniversary with a brand new audiobook recording Winner of the 1998 National Book Award for Fiction* Program includes a bonus conversation between Alice McDermott and Matthew Thomas, New York Times bestselling author of the critically-acclaimed novel, We Are Not Ourselves. Alice McDermott's striking audiobook, 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.… (meer)

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Lid:	goodoljack2
Titel:	Charming Billy: A Novel (Picador Modern Classics)
Auteurs:	Alice McDermott (Auteur)
Info:	Picador Modern Classics (2014), Edition: Reprint, 256 pages
Verzamelingen:	Gelezen, maar niet in bezit
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Trefwoorden:	Geen

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Charming Billy door Alice McDermott (1998)

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Beautifully written. The interview with the author at the end helped me understand the Catholic themes underlying the story. I'll read again in a few years. (

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Castinet | Dec 11, 2022 |

Here's what I wrote in 2008 about this read: "This was good. Charming Billy was an extreme alcoholic, but with a history and set of circumstances which tormented him. His daughters come to understand him fully only after his death." (

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MGADMJK | Sep 22, 2022 |

Recorre los lados del particular triángulo conformado por las vidas de Billy, Maeve y Dennis y narra con maestría y sin piedad cómo en toda familia arden heridas que nunca llegan a cicatrizar.

socogarv | Jan 17, 2021 |

The story of an extended family centered around the funeral of charming Billy, an alcoholic obsessed with his lost early love. About the disappointments of life, memories, redemption, and love. (

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snash | Aug 17, 2018 |

Framed by the narrative of the family funereal gathering for the late Billy Lynch, the novel recounts Billy's life, his early lost love, his struggle with alcohol, his never-lost charm. We're also given the lives of other members of the family and their close, everyday relationships, especially how Billy's live - and death - have influenced them. The real charmer here is the story itself, and the lovely way it is told, through the sweetness of its quotidian details, the mundane made holy, in some way. So excellently written, this one. Definitely recommended. (

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We all have books that rededicate us to the fantastic powers of fiction, and this is one of mine. McDermott makes the point that when a person’s life story is fully told they may become more mysterious—easy to say, but when fiction brings you to a realization like this, when an author can make this happen inside of you—there’s nothing like it.

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American Book Award (1999)

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Women's Prize for Fiction (Longlist – 2000)

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Billy Lynch

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The Bronx, New York, New York, USA

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For Will, Eames, and Patrick

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Somewhere in the Bronx, only twenty minutes or so from the cemetery, Meave found a small bar-and-grill in a wooded alcove set well off the street that was willing to serve the funeral party of forty-seven medium-rare roast beef and boiled potatoes and green beans amandine, with fruit salad to begin and vanilla ice cream to go with the coffee.

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*Celebrating the Twentieth Anniversary with a brand new audiobook recording* *Winner of the 1998 National Book Award for Fiction** Program includes a bonus conversation between Alice McDermott and Matthew Thomas, New York Times bestselling author of the critically-acclaimed novel, We Are Not Ourselves. Alice McDermott's striking audiobook, 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.

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