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About This Book:

Title: Billy Bathgate

Other Available Formats:
Hardcover, 1989
Book, 1989
Hardcover, 1990
Paperback, 1990
Hardcover, 1991
Paperback, 1991
Paperback, 1994
Paperback, 1995
Paperback, 1998

Synopsis
On Bathgate Avenue in the Bronx of the Great Depression, Billy spends his boyhood being groomed as an apprentice thug working for the notorious gangster Dutch Schultz. When he falls in love with Drew, his boss's girl, he begins to think that the life of a mobster may not be the glamorous world he expected, and he resolves to take Drew away from it all.

Details
Language:        English

Size
Length:        336 Pages



Industry Reviews
"...Mr. Doctorow's sharpest piece of work, ['BILLY BATHGATE) is Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer with more poetry, Holden Caulfield with more zest and spirit."
(02/26/1989)
"[A] masterwork. Though BILLY BATHGATE meditates on many matters--mobsters and orphans, the East Bronx and the Great Depression, the politics of sex and the psychology of class...think of it, like Scott Fitzgerald's THE GREAT GATSBY or Horatio Alger's RAGGED DICK, as a fairy tale about capitalism. And color it wonderful."
"American novelists have always been readier than their European counterparts to demonstrate that the art of literature can adopt the form of popular entertainment without losing an iota of seriousness, and BILLY BATHGATE is Doctorow's most brilliant proof of it to date."


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Book Details Summary: The title of this book is Billy Bathgate and it was written by E.L. Doctorow. This edition of Billy Bathgate is in a Paperback format. This books publish date is June 2010 and it has a suggested retail price of $16. There are 336 pages in the book and it was published by Random House Inc. The 10 digit ISBN is 0812981170 and the 13 digit ISBN is 9780812981179. For the most current lowest price, Click Here.