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Charming Billy

(1997)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards Best Novel (nominee)
National Book Award for Fiction Best Book
The late Billy Lynch's family and friends gather at a bar in the Bronx to remember better times. They admire the way his widow, Maeve, is holding up but one cannot think of Billy without saying "There was that girl." Soon the twisted grief of Maeve, Billy and his cousin Dennis becomes apparent.


Genre: Literary Fiction

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