Billy Bathgate
  • Published: 4 August 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241256435
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336

Billy Bathgate

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19 Sep 2016
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4 Aug 2016
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From the American master of historical fiction, an award-winning coming-of-age story set amidst the gangster underworld of Depression-era New York City

'I was living in even greater circles of gangsterdom than I had dreamed, latitudes and longitudes of gangsterdom'

It's 1930's New York and fifteen-year-old streetkid Billy, who can juggle, somersault and run like the wind, has been taken under the wing of notorious gangster Dutch Schultz. As Billy learns the ways of the mob, he becomes like a son to Schultz - his 'good-luck kid' - and is initiated into a world of glamour, death and danger that will consume him, in this vivid, soaring epic of crime and betrayal.
  • Published: 4 August 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241256435
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336
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E. L. Doctorow

E. L. Doctorow (1931 - 2015) has had his work published in thirty languages. His novels include City of God, Welcome to Hard Times, The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, Loon Lake, Lives of the Poets, World's Fair, Billy Bathgate and The Waterworks. Among his honours are the National Book Award, two National Book Critics Circle Awards, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Edith Wharton Citation for Fiction, the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the presidentially conferred National Humanities Medal. 

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