Billy Bathgate (1989) - E.L. Doctorow

E.L. Doctorow

Category: Adults

Tags: Adults, Historical Fiction, Literature

Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group Release date: March 4, 2014 Duration: 11:15:38, Another Vintage Classic, To listen to this audiobook 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 protg 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. Doctorows trademark comes to triumphant fruition in Billy Bathgate, a peerless coming-of-age tale and one of Doctorows boldest and most beloved bestsellers., Publishers Weekley says it best.February 1, 1989 In the poorest part of the Bronx, in the depths of the Depression, a teenage, fatherless street kid who will adopt the name Billy Bathgate comes to the attention of his idol, master gangster Dutch