Charming Billy

Hardcover

1st

Fiction

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Everyone loved him. If you knew Billy at all,then you loved him. The late Billy Lynch’s family and friends, a party of 47, 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 the there, of course, and everyone admires the way she’s 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.
For on Long Island, one summer years and years ago, Billy fell in love with a beautiful young Irish woman who had come to America to work for a wealthy family from Park Avenue. Billy wanted to marry Eva, even gave her a ring. But she went back to Ireland to care for her relatives, promising to return; and then Dennis, Billy‘s cousin had to break the news: Eve had died of pneumonia. Billy Lynch not got over it. Anyone who knew him would tell you so...

Macmillan

9780374120801

1997-12-31

1

~$11.99

2026-02-28

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