Charming Billy

Resource Information

The work Charming Billy represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Charming Billy

Statement of responsibility

Alice McDermott

Creator

• McDermott, Alice

Subject

• Domestic fiction
• Fiction
• Alcoholics -- Fiction
• Alcoholics -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
• Irish Americans -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
• Irish American families -- Fiction
• Irish Americans -- Fiction
• Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
• Domestic fiction
• Families -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
• Domestic fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Domestic fiction

Language

eng

Summary

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

Cataloging source

MB

Dewey number

813/.54

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3563.C355

LC item number

C48 1998

Literary form

fiction