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Billy Bathgate
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Billy Bathgate (1989) (edit title/settings)

by E. L. Doctorow (Author) (edit contributors)

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In 1930's New York, Billy Bathgate, a fifteen-year-old high-school dropout, has captured the attention of infamous gangster Dutch Schultz, who lures the boy into his world of racketeering. The product of an East Bronx upbringing by his half-crazy Irish Catholic mother, after his Jewish father... read more

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1930's New York

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He had to have planned it because when we drove onto the dock the boat was there and the engine was running and you could see the water churning up phosphorescence in the river, which was the only light there was because there was no moon, nor no electric light either in the shack where the dockmaster should have been sitting, nor on the boat itself, and certainly not from the car, yet everyone knew where everything was, and when the big Packard came down the ramp Mickey the driver braked it so that the wheels hardly rattled the boards, and when he pulled up alongside the gangway the doors were already open and they hustled Bo and the girl upside before they even made a shadow in all that darkness.

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This is book 189 of 1272 in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. (authoritative list)

Preceded by Moon Palace, and followed by The Remains of the Day.

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  1. E. L. Doctorow (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Random House
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1989
ISBN: 0394525299
Page Count: 323

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  • Library of Congress: PS3554.O3 B55
  • Dewey: 813.54

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Reading Level: Adults

Crime and sex

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