Jun 14, 2017 10:59 AM
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Charming Billy is more sculpture than novel. The novel opens with a debate at Billy's funeral service. Did Billy drinks himself to death out of alcohol addiction or did he mourn, for four decades, the loss of his first love and eventually die of heart attack. Billy was consumed by a grief, not for woman he lost but for the romance he was denied. His loyalty to an impossible ideal gave him a life of disappointment and a dispensation to drink. The narration is quite good. One will really enjoy this book.
