Billy Bathgate - Softcover

Doctorow, E. L.

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ISBN 10: 0061000078 ISBN 13: 9780061000072

Publisher: HarperPaperbacks, 1990

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Young Billy Bathgate witnesses atrocities of the crime world in his introduction to a brutal and unsparing life that takes him through the heart of the city and the rural underworld in Depression-era America

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A wonderful addition to the ranks of American boy heroes . . . Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer with more poetry, Holden Caulfield with more zest and spirit . . . The kind of book you find yourself finishing at three in the morning after promising at midnight that you ll stop at the next page. "New York Times Book Review
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A modern American masterpiece . . . Doctorow takes up the legacies of Fitzgerald and Cheever and adds to them a savage and erotic splendor of his own. John le Carre
Indelible in its fierce energy, its relentless irony, its rawness. "Philadelphia Inquirer
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Riveting . . . mesmerizing . . . unforgettable. "Time
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Enthralling. "Los Angeles Times"
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"A wonderful addition to the ranks of American boy heroes . . . Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer with more poetry, Holden Caulfield with more zest and spirit . . . The kind of book you find yourself finishing at three in the morning after promising at midnight that you'll stop at the next page."--New York Times Book Review

"A modern American masterpiece . . . Doctorow takes up the legacies of Fitzgerald and Cheever and adds to them a savage and erotic splendor of his own."--John le Carre
"Indelible in its fierce energy, its relentless irony, its rawness."--Philadelphia Inquirer

"Riveting . . . mesmerizing . . . unforgettable."--Time

"Enthralling."--Los Angeles Times

About the Author:

E. L. Doctorow (1931-2015) was one of America's most accomplished and acclaimed writers. Winner of the National Book Award, three National Book Critics Circle Awards, two PEN/Faulkner Awards, and the National Humanities Medal, he is the author of twelve novels that explored the drama of American life from the late-19th century to the 21st.

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