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| Billy Bathgate is an urban Huck Finn who comes of age in New York City in the 1930s as the protege of Dutch Schultz, one of the most abominable gangsters of his time, but one of life's great teachers as well. |
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Key Information
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| Awards: |
1989 National Book Critics Circle Award, 1990 PEN/Faulkner Award, 1990 Pulitzer Prize |
| Authors: |
E.L. Doctorow |
| Fiction Subgenre: |
Conflicts & Dualities |
| Fiction Genre: |
Fiction |
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Professional Reviews
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"[A] masterwork. Though BILLY BATHGATE meditates on many matters--mobsters and orphans, the East Bronx and the Great Depression, the politics of sex and the psychology of class...think of it, like Scott Fitzgerald's THE GREAT GATSBY or Horatio Alger's RAGGED DICK, as a fairy tale about capitalism. And color it wonderful.", Rushdie, Salman: "American novelists have always been readier than their European counterparts to demonstrate that the art of literature can adopt the form of popular entertainment without losing an iota of seriousness, and BILLY BATHGATE is Doctorow's most brilliant proof of it to date.", Tyler, Anne, New York Times Book Review: "...Mr. Doctorow's sharpest piece of work, ['BILLY BATHGATE) is Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer with more poetry, Holden Caulfield with more zest and spirit." |
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Book Editions
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- Paperback
- Reprint
- 323
- November 01, 1998
- Plume
- 8"(h) x 6"(w) x 1"(d), 0.8 lbs.
- 9780452280021
, - Paperback
- 336
- June 29, 2010
- Random House Inc
- 9780812981179
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