
Billy Bathgate
by E. L. Doctorow
Title:
Billy Bathgate
Author:
E. L. Doctorow
Series (if any):
Penguin Modern Classics
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
320 pages
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN-13:
9780241256428
EAN:
9780241256428
Publication Date:
04/08/2016
Classifications:
Modern and Contemporary (Post c 1945)
Weight (g):
358
Dimensions (mm):
131 x 197 x 21
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
''I was living in even greater circles of gangsterdom than I had dreamed, latitudes and longitudes of gangsterdom''It''s 1930''s New York and fifteen-year-old streetkid Billy, who can juggle, somersault and run like the wind, has been taken under the wing of notorious gangster Dutch Schultz. As Billy learns the ways of the mob, he becomes like a son to Schultz - his ''good-luck kid'' - and is initiated into a world of glamour, death and danger that will consume him, in this vivid, soaring epic of crime and betrayal.























