About this title: On Bathgate Avenue in the Bronx of the Great Depression, Billy spends his boyhood being groomed as an apprentice thug working for the notorious gangster Dutch Schultz. When he falls in love with Drew, his boss's girl, he begins to think that the life of a mobster may not be the glamorous world he expected, and he resolves to take Drew away from it ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Picador
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780330311588ISBN:0330311581
Description: 0330311581. Pages good but lightly tanned. Some wear/creasing to cover. Will be sent from Devon within 24 hours by first class post.; Picador Books; 336 pages. read more
Description: Good. Ships from the UK. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. read more
Edition: not 1st printing, a crime novel set in New York in 1930s
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Picador
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780330311588ISBN:0330311581
Description: Very good mass market paperback copy, some spine crease. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Picador
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780330311588ISBN:0330311581
Description: New. Ex shop-display copy, lightly tanned page edges, neat tight and good value. IN STOCK NOW, despatched daily from the UK En Stock, tous les jours de expédiés du Royaume-Uni EN STOCK NOW, despachar diariamente desde el Reino Unido por correo aéreo IN STOCK NOW, auch wenn täglich aus dem Vereinigten Königreich per Luftpost. read more
"Doctorow displays a deft hand in writing about the trials and travails of a young boy who finds his destiny as a member of the notorious Dutch Schultz gang. We are immersed in the boy and the aldult voice of that same child and can easily distinguish between the two. Doctorow makes us smell the streets of New York and the open spaces of Onondaga County. While the narrative is sometimes pulled off course by the vagaries of minor characters it is an entertaining read."
"E.L. Doctorow is fast becoming one of my favorite authors. His writing is so honest and perceptive. This book had me right on the first page. The characters were very believable and I felt like I was right there in the 1930's. Great book."
"Per Doctorow, the language is dense and the syntax spirals on. Yet, rather than alienating or being at odds with the narrator and story, it actually makes both epic. I love the rendering of 1930s America, and I love the idea of a mob story beginning on the decline of the characters--it's more like Greek tragedy as opposed to Shakespearean (I knew things were going to fall apart, but the question was how), except of course for Bathgate. The final sentence was killer."
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