Billy Bathgate
by Doctorow, E. L
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket as Issued
- Seller
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La Porte, Texas, United States
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Synopsis
Billy Bathgate is a 1989 novel by author E. L. Doctorow that won the 1989 National Book Critics Circle award for fiction for 1990 and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and was the runner up for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize . The story is told in the first person by Billy "Bathgate" Behan, a fifteen-year-old boy who first becomes the gofer and then surrogate son of mobster Dutch Schultz.
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- Bookseller
- Bookmarc's (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SCW00251
- Title
- Billy Bathgate
- Author
- Doctorow, E. L
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Issued
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, USA
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- Literature Literary Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction: Historical; Fiction: Historical / US Historical Fiction;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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