| Billy Bathgate Contributor(s): Doctorow, E. L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0812981170 ISBN-13: 9780812981179 Publisher: Random House Trade OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Coming Of Age |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2010502989 |
| Series: Random House Reader's Circle |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 5.28" W x 7.96" (0.54 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Locality - New York, N.Y. - Geographic Orientation - New York - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: To open this book is to enter the perilous, thrilling world of Billy Bathgate, the brazen boy who is accepted into the inner circle of the notorious Dutch Schultz gang. Like an urban Tom Sawyer, Billy takes us along on his fateful adventures as he becomes good-luck charm, apprentice, and finally prot g to one of the great murdering gangsters of the Depression-era underworld in New York City. 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. |