- American literature, Fiction, Gangsters, Criminals
The story of Billy Bathgate, a boy who has insinuated himself into the inner circle of the notorious Dutch Schultz gang to become apprentice and protege to one of the great murdering gangsters.
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Classical in form, grave, bleak and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- E. L. Doctorow
- First published
- 1990
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- Random House, Incorporated, Penguin Books, Limited, Cengage Gale
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781299028272
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Edgar Lawrence Doctorow has received the National Book Award, two National Book Critics Circle Awards, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Edith Wharton Citation for Fiction, the William Dean Howell Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the National Humanities Medal. Doctorow was born in New York City on January 6, 1931, and attended the Bronx High School of Science. After graduating with honors from Kenyon College in 1952, he did graduate work at Columbia University and served in the U.S. Army, which stationed him in Germany. In 1954, he married Helen Setzer. They have three children. Doctorow was senior editor for New American Library from 1959 to 1964 and then served as editor in
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