Charming Billy

Charming Billy

Authors	Alice McDermott
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Fiction
Publisher	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date	31 September 1997
Media type	Hardcover
Pages	280 pp
ISBN	978-0-312-42942-3

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] It won the National Book Award^[2] for fiction as well as the American Book Award,^[3] and was shortlisted for the International Dublin IMPAC Literary Award.^[4] The novel was published by FSG in 1997 and has since been republished by Picador (as a Picador Modern Classic.)^[5]

References

↑ "Charming Billy book review". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
↑ "National Book Award Winner". http://www.nbafictionblog.org/. National Book Award Foundation. Retrieved 16 December 2014. External link in |website= (help)
↑ "Previous Winners of the American Book Award" (PDF). beforecolumbusfoundation.com. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
↑ "Shortlist titles (2000)". .impacdublinaward.ie. The International IMPAC Dublind Literary Award. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
↑ Swanson, Clare. "Picador Set to Launch Modern Classics". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 16 December 2014.

Preceded by Cold Mountain Charles Frazier	National Book Award for Fiction 1998	Succeeded by Waiting Ha Jin

National Book Award for Fiction (1975–1999)

Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone (1975) The Hair of Harold Roux by Thomas Williams (1975) J R by William Gaddis (1976) The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner (1977) Blood Tie by Mary Lee Settle (1978) Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien (1979) Sophie's Choice by William Styron (1980) The World According to Garp by John Irving (1980) Plains Song: For Female Voices by Wright Morris (1981) The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (1981) Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (1982) So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell (1982) The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1983) The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty (1983) Victory Over Japan by Ellen Gilchrist (1984) White Noise by Don DeLillo (1985) World's Fair by E. L. Doctorow (1986) Paco's Story by Larry Heinemann (1987) Paris Trout by Pete Dexter (1988) Spartina by John Casey (1989) Middle Passage by Charles Johnson (1990) Mating by Norman Rush (1991) All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (1992) The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (1993) A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis (1994) Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth (1995) Ship Fever and Other Stories by Andrea Barrett (1996) Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (1997) Charming Billy by Alice McDermott (1998) Waiting by Ha Jin (1999)

Complete list (1950–1974) (1975–1999) (2000–2024)

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