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A Charming Billy Paperback - 1997

by Alice McDermott


First line

SOMEWHERE IN THE BRONX, only twenty minutes or so from the cemetery, Maeve found a small bar-and-grill in a wooded alcove set well off the street that was willing to serve the funeral party of forty-seven medium-rare roast beef and boiled potatoes and green beans amadine, with fruit salad to begin and vanilla ice cream to go with the coffee.

Details

  • Title A Charming Billy
  • Author Alice McDermott
  • Binding Paperback
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Warner Books (NY)
  • Date December 1997
  • ISBN 9780765557520 / 0765557525
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Alice McDermott is the author of The Ninth Hour, That Night, After This, and At Weddings and Wakes. That Night, At Weddings and Wakes, and After This were all finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. She is the Richard A. Macksey Professor for Distinguished Teaching in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins Universit