![]() ![]() A determined alcoholic since he was told his Irish fiancee had died, he has lived a life of longing and selfabuse even as he's been married to the most understanding woman in the world. The story, in brief, is that beloved Billy at last has died from his beloved booze. The reader browses through McDermott's snapshots, noticing a shoe here, a bottle there, until the story is complete. ![]() Framed by a funeral, Billy's, the story deciphers not just him but his entire extended IrishAmerican family. ![]() Instead, it invites slow and satisfying rumination. Her latest novel doesn't lasso the reader with a powerful plot that pulls strongly toward the end of the book. 1 - Alice McDermott is a writer of such exquisitely detailed observations that Aevery anecdote in "Charming Billy'' is like a photograph in a family album. ![]()
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