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Billy Bathgate is a 1989 novel by author E. L. Doctorow that 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.
- Edgar Lawrence Doctorow
- 1989
This is the story of Billy Behan, soon to call himself Billy Bathgate, in 1930's New York City. He gains the attention of Dutch Schultz, a real mobster who runs an illegal gambling establishment. Schultz has been accused of tax evasion. In a plea bargain, he is allowed to pick the site of his trial.
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The luminous transformation of fact into fiction that is E. L. Doctorow’s trademark comes to triumphant fruition in Billy Bathgate, a peerless coming-of-age tale and one of Doctorow’s boldest and most beloved bestsellers.
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Billy Behan, a fatherless Irish-Jewish kid from the East Bronx, is 15 when he first has the luck one day to see Schultz in the flesh—and the greater luck briefly to catch the illustrious mobster's attention.
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Jan 1, 1994 · Amazon.com 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.
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Our Reading Guide for Billy Bathgate by E.L. Doctorow includes Book Club Discussion Questions, Book Reviews, Plot Summary-Synopsis and Author Bio.
Jul 22, 2015 · E.L. Doctorow, the author of literary classics like "The Book of Daniel," "Billy Bathgate," "World's Fair" and "Ragtime," died Tuesday at 84. Doctorow — the "E.L." stood for "Edgar...
