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Cover of Billy Bathgate by E. L. Doctorow

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Billy Bathgate

a novel

by E. L. Doctorow

323 pages · 1989

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About the 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.

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