![]() But on the afternoon of Billy's funeral, Dennis makes a startling confession to his daughter, who is also the novel's narrator: ''Eva never died. Monia, explained his cousin and best friend, Dennis, who had spoken with Mary. In the year that followed, Billy schemed and saved, thinking of nothing but her return. York family, and was bound home for Ireland. ![]() They had only a few months for courting: he was fresh out of the Army, about to go back to a job at Con Ed she was visiting her sister, Mary, who worked for a rich New Private history, and in the barroom philosophizing and parish-hall commiserating that has shaped it for public consumption.įorty years earlier, in the summer of 1945, Billy fixed on Eva as his one true love. The resurrection is that of Eva, the ''Irish girl'' who has loomed so large in Billy's The death is that of Billy Lynch, the ''Charmingīilly'' of the title, a fixture of his Irish-American working-class community - a storyteller, a dreamer, a hopeless drunk. Lice McDermott's eloquent and unsettling new novel begins with a death - and a distinctly inconvenient resurrection. ![]() More on Alice McDermott, from The New York Times Archives In Alice McDermott's latest novel, a single lie changes the course of Billy Lynch's entire life. ![]()
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