Charming Billy

{{short description|1997 novel by Alice McDermott}}

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| image = Charming Billy.jpg

| name = Charming Billy

| authors = Alice McDermott

| country = United States

| language = English

| genre = Literary fiction

| publisher = Farrar, Straus and Giroux

| pages = 280 pp

| media_type = Print (hardcover, paperback), kindle, audiobook

| isbn = 9780374120801

| pub_date = December 1997{{em dash}}Early 1998

| isbn_note =
(hardcover 1st ed.)

| oclc = 38161224

}}

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.{{cite web |title=Charming Billy book review |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-374-12080-1 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141211005124/http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-374-12080-1 |archive-date=11 December 2014 |accessdate=16 December 2014 |website=Publishers Weekly |publisher=}} The novel was published by FSG in 1997 or 1998 and has since been republished by Picador (as a Picador Modern Classic).{{cite web |last1=Swanson |first1=Clare |title=Picador Set to Launch Modern Classics |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/59765-picador-set-to-launch-modern-classics.html |accessdate=16 December 2014 |publisher=Publishers Weekly}} It won the National Book Award for Fiction{{cite web |title=National Book Award Winner |url=http://www.nbafictionblog.org/nba-winning-books-blog/1998.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150712011149/http://www.nbafictionblog.org/nba-winning-books-blog/1998.html |archive-date=12 July 2015 |accessdate=16 December 2014 |website=www.nbafictionblog.org/ |publisher=National Book Award Foundation}} and the American Book Award,{{cite web|title=Previous Winners of the American Book Award|url=http://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Aba2001prior.pdf|website=beforecolumbusfoundation.com|accessdate=16 December 2014|archive-date=7 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170807143839/http://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Aba2001prior.pdf|url-status=live}} and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award.{{cite web|title=Shortlist titles (2000)|url=http://www.impacdublinaward.ie/award-archive/winners-1996-2012/2000-shortlist/|website=.impacdublinaward.ie|publisher=The International IMPAC Dublind Literary Award|accessdate=16 December 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141216220512/http://www.impacdublinaward.ie/award-archive/winners-1996-2012/2000-shortlist/|archivedate=16 December 2014}}