by E. L. Doctorow · Círculo de Lectores. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422634799
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«Billy Bathgate» is the historical crime novel by E. L. Doctorow, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (334 pages, in Spanish).
In Depression-era New York, Billy Bathgate, a street kid, enters the orbit of gangster Dutch Schultz and becomes his protégé. The novel portrays the world of organized crime in the twenties and thirties, and the price of ambition and power in an environment where loyalty coexists with violence and death.
Original novel from 1989; this Spanish edition, with translation by César Armando Gómez and introduction by Javier Tomeo, appeared in 1990. It won the PEN/Faulkner Award and was a Pulitzer finalist.
For readers of historical and crime fiction, interested in Depression-era New York and the gangster genre.
