E. L. Doctorow - Billy Bathgate

Details
Paperback - Used

Rating
3.8/5 Goodreads

Synopsis
Enter the perilous 1930s New York underworld of Billy Bathgate, the brazen boy who has insinuated himself into the inner circle of the notorious Dutch Schultz, one of the great murdering gangsters of his time...

"Sheer potency and story-telling magic... from the first pages one feels the throb of true inspiration" - Graham Swift, Evening Standard
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"I found myself re-reading almost at once, and the spell strengthened" - George Steiner, Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year