TY  - BOOK
AU  - McDermott,Alice
TI  - Charming Billy
SN  - 038533334X
PY  - 1999///
CY  - New York
PB  - Delta
KW  - Irish American families
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Irish Americans
KW  - Alcoholics
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Betrayal
KW  - Deception
KW  - Lost loves
KW  - Secrecy
KW  - Alcoholism
KW  - Family
KW  - Loveless marriage
KW  - Bronx (New York, N.Y.)
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - lcsh
KW  - Domestic
KW  - Generational
KW  - ssi
KW  - Historical
KW  - Sociological
N2  - 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
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