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090 _aPS3563.C355
_bC48 1999
100 1 _aMcDermott, Alice.
_958287
245 1 0 _aCharming Billy /
_cAlice McDermott.
260 _aNew York :
_bDelta,
_c1999.
300 _a243 p. ;
_c21 cm.
336 _2rdacontent
_atext
_btxt
337 _2rdamedia
_aunmediated
_bn
338 _2rdacarrier
_avolume
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520 0 _aEveryone 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.
586 _aNational book award winner.
650 0 _aIrish American families
_vFiction.
_9132520
650 0 _aIrish Americans
_vFiction.
_9132523
650 0 _aAlcoholics
_vFiction.
_9132525
650 0 _aImmigrants.
_9132526
650 0 _aBetrayal.
_923842
650 0 _aDeception.
_9132527
650 0 _aLost loves.
_9132528
650 0 _aSecrecy.
_923541
650 0 _aAlcoholism.
_915193
650 0 _aIrish Americans.
_9132529
650 0 _aFamily.
_9132530
650 0 _aLoveless marriage.
_9132531
651 0 _aBronx (New York, N.Y.)
_vFiction.
_9132532
655 7 _aDomestic fiction.
_2lcsh
_9132533
655 7 _aDomestic
_bGenerational
_2ssi
_924284
655 7 _aHistorical
_2ssi
_920199
655 7 _aSociological
_2ssi
_937919
655 7 _aFiction
_2ssi
_9132534
690 _aLynch, Maeve
_cFemale
_eWidow
_eIrish American
_fBilly's wife
_9132535
690 _aLynch, Billy
_cMale
_eIrish American
_eAlcoholic
_fSoft-spoken; poetry lover; grieved all his life for the loss of his first love
_9132537
691 _aQueens, New York
_cMid-Atlantic States (U.S.)
_9132538
693 _a1940s-1980s
_b20th century
696 1 _aNational Book Award for Fiction winner
_y1998
_9132541
696 1 _aReference and User Service Association (RUSA) Notable Book
_xFiction
_y1999
_9122399
696 0 _aOrange Prize nominee (Long list)
_y2000
_918514
696 0 _aInternational IMPAC Dublin Literary Award nominee
_y2000
_9132546
852 _9p14.25
_y07-24-2004
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