Billy Bathgate - Softcover

Doctorow, E. L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061000078 ISBN 13: 9780061000072

Publisher: Harper & Row, 1990

Synopsis

Young Billy Bathgate witnesses atrocities of the crime world in his introduction to a brutal and unsparing life that takes him through the heart of the city and the rural underworld in Depression-era America

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Review:

In the Bronx of the 1930s, 15-year-old Billy Bathgate hooks up with a legendary mobster, Dutch Schultz. Schultz becomes an unlikely surrogate parent to the boy, introducing him to the ways of the world and training Billy to follow in his footsteps. After Billy falls for Schulz's latest girlfriend, he begins to question the actions of the mob he was so eager to join. As he seeks to protect the young woman, he gains strength in following his own heart and makes a courageous passage from boyhood to adulthood. E.L Doctorow won the 1990 PEN/Faulkner Award for this novel.

From the Publisher:

The bestselling, brilliantly crafted story of crime and corruption by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ragtime, Loon Lake, and World's Fair.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper & Row
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0061000078
• ISBN 13: 9780061000072
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 484