Charming Billy

Charming Billy, a novel by American author Alice McDermott, tells the story of Billy Lynch and his lifelong struggle with alcohol after the death of his first love.^[1] The novel was published by FSG in 1997 or 1998 and has since been republished by Picador (as a Picador Modern Classic).^[2] It won the National Book Award for Fiction^[3] and the American Book Award,^[4] and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award.^[5]

Charming Billy

Authors	Alice McDermott
Language	English
Genre	Literary fiction
Publisher	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date	December 1997—Early 1998
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardcover, paperback), kindle, audiobook
Pages	280 pp
ISBN	9780374120801 (hardcover 1st ed.)
OCLC	38161224