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Loading... Billy Bathgate (1989)by E. L. Doctorow
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. 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. no reviews | add a review
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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. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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