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Charming Billy: A Novel Audiobook
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*Celebrating the Twentieth Anniversary with a brand new audiobook recording*
*Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction*
*Program includes a bonus conversation between Alice McDermott and Matthew Thomas, New York Times bestselling author of the critically-acclaimed novel, We Are Not Ourselves*
Alice McDermott's striking audiobook, Charming Billy, is a study of the lies that bind and the weight of familial love, of the way good intentions can be as destructive as the truth they were meant to hide.
Billy Lynch's family and friends have gathered to comfort his widow, and to pay their respects to one of the last great romantics. As they trade tales of his famous humor, immense charm, and consuming sorrow, a complex portrait emerges of an enigmatic man, a loyal friend, a beloved husband, an incurable alcoholic.
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"There's no one like Alice McDermott for catching the ebullient particulars of the Irish-American sensibility…her touch is light as a feather, her perceptions purely accurate."
— Elle
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“A luminous and affecting novel.”
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“Wise, multilayered, and considerably more complex than it may at first seem.”
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“McDermott demonstrates anew that she is a writer in a league all her own.”
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“A remarkable and beautifully told novel, with overlays of prose and insight that are simply luminescent.”
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“This is fiction as good as it gets.
— USA Today -
A luminous and affecting novel.
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McDermott demonstrates anew that she is a writer in a league all her own.
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...a rueful shrug of a novel whose strong, shrewd opening pages should be taught in college writing classes.
— Time
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Winner of the 1998 National Book Award
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Winner of National Book Awards - Winner, 1998
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Winner of National Book Awards - Winner, 1998
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About Alice McDermott
Alice McDermott is the author of several novels, including Charming Billy, winner of the 1998 National Book Award and a New York Times bestseller. That Night, At Weddings and Wakes, and After This were all finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. Her stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, the New Yorker, Harper’s magazine, and elsewhere. For more than two decades she was the Richard A. Macksey Professor of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University and a member of the faculty at the Sewanee Writers Conference.
About Barrie Kreinik
Barrie Kreinik is an actor, singer, playwright, and voice-dialect coach based in New York City. Her audiobook narrations have earned an AudioFile Earphones Award. A graduate of the Brown/Trinity MFA acting program, she is a proud member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA.