by E. L. Doctorow · Macmillan · tapa dura · ISBN 9780333513767
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«Billy Bathgate» is the crime and historical fiction novel by E. L. Doctorow, published by Macmillan in hardcover (323 pages, in English).
In Depression-era New York, young Billy Bathgate enters the inner circle of gangster Dutch Schultz's mob. Through his eyes, the novel shows the fascination and danger of organized crime, the loyalty among its members, and the price of ambition in an atmosphere of violence and corruption.
Published in 1989, it received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
For readers of American literature with an interest in the mob atmosphere of 1930s New York.
