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Billy Bathgate (1989)

by E. L. Doctorow

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The story of Billy Bathgate, a boy who has insinuated himself into the inner circle of the notorious Dutch Schultz gang to become apprentice and protege to one of the great murdering gangsters.
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Reason for reading; TBR takedown, Reading 1001, ROOT. This is a work of historical fiction and is set in New York City area and involves organized crime. Billy is a young boy who works his way into the gang. He takes on the last name Bathgate as his identity. Bathgate is the name of a street. The story is based on a real gangster, Dutch Schultz. The book won the 1989 National Book Critics Circle award for fiction for 1990,the 1990 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction,the 1990 William Dean Howells Medal,and was the runner-up for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize and the 1989 National Book Award.
  Kristelh | Jan 8, 2022 |
Bummer. I loved Homer & Langley so much, I had high hopes for Billy. Couldn't get into it.
  Jinjer | Jul 19, 2021 |
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  fmc712 | Feb 18, 2021 |
Gangster youth turns into successful business may - very strong Dickensian vibes for me with solid rough-and-ready American gangster. ( )
  brakketh | Mar 9, 2020 |
A gripping account of the gangster life of Dutch Schultz, fictionalized but still close to what actually happened. The narrator also does very well bringing the words to life. ( )
  charlie68 | Jun 11, 2019 |
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Doctorow, E. L.primary authorall editionsconfirmed
Deakins, MarkNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Toorn, Willem vanTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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He had to have planned it because when we drove onto the dock the boat was there and the engine was running and you could see the water churning up phosphorescence in the river, which was the only light there was because there was no moon, nor no electric light either in the shack where the dockmaster should have been sitting, nor on the boat itself, and certainly not from the car, yet everyone knew where everything was, and when the big Packard came down the ramp Mickey the driver braked it so that the wheels hardly rattled the boards, and when he pulled up alongside the gangway the doors were already open and they hustled Bo and the girl upside before they even made a shadow in all that darkness.
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The story of Billy Bathgate, a boy who has insinuated himself into the inner circle of the notorious Dutch Schultz gang to become apprentice and protege to one of the great murdering gangsters.

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