McDermott, Alice.

Charming Billy / [electronic resource] Alice McDermott. - 1st ed. - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. - 280 p. ; 22 cm.

A young woman, cousin to the late Billy Lynch who has just died of alcoholism, traces the story of his lost love, discovering her own father's role in trying to keep Billy from being hurt by the truth about Eva, and contemplating the effect her father's lie had on the rest of the family.

0374120803 9780374120801

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Irish American families--Fiction.
Irish Americans--Fiction.
Alcoholics--Fiction.


Bronx (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.


Domestic fiction.

PS3563.C355 / C48 1998

813/.54