Billy Bathgate M/TV

E. L. Doctorow

About this book

The story of Billy Bathgate, a boy who has insinuated himself into the inner circle of the notorious Dutch Schultz gang to become apprentice and protege to one of the great murdering gangsters.

Subjects

  • american fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • award:national_book_critics_circle_award=1989
  • award:national_book_critics_circle_award=fiction
  • award:pen_faulkner_award=1990
  • award:pen_faulkner_award=fiction
  • crime, fiction
  • criminals
  • criminals, fiction
  • criminals in fiction
  • cultural literacy and humanities
  • depressions
  • fiction
  • fiction, city life
  • fiction, coming of age
  • fiction, historical
  • fiction, historical, general
  • gangsters
  • history
  • hoodlums
  • national book critics circle award winner
  • new york (n.y.), fiction
  • new york times reviewed
  • nineteen thirties
  • pen/faulkner award winner
  • reading level-adult
  • schultz, dutch, 1900 or 1-1935
  • schultz, dutch, in fiction