To open this book is to enter the perilous, thrilling world of
Billy Bathgate, the brazen boy who is accepted into the inner
circle of the notorious Dutch Schultz gang. Like an urban Tom
Sawyer, Billy takes us along on his fateful adventures as he
becomes good-luck charm, apprentice, and finally protege to one of
the great murdering gangsters of the Depression-era underworld in
New York City. The luminous transformation of fact into fiction
that is E. L. Doctorow's trademark comes to triumphant fruition in
Billy Bathgate," "a peerless coming-of-age tale and one of
Doctorow's boldest and most beloved bestsellers.
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