PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Billy Bathgate: A Novel (Thorndike Press Large Print Paperback Series)
A coming-of-age novel about Billy, a boy immersed in the gangster world of the 1930s. Through the criminal underworld around real-life gangsters, it depicts loyalty, betrayal, power, and a vivid historical milieu.
Work Information
A boy grows up inside the gangster world.
Set in the criminal world of the 1930s, the novel follows a boy learning how the world works as he grows up. It absorbs the historical atmosphere around real gangsters while dramatizing loyalty and betrayal.
Book Information
- Publisher
- G K Hall & Co
- Published
- 1990-10-01
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 15.88 x 2.54 x 24.13 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780816150083
- ISBN-10
- 0816150087
- Price
- 6446 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Literary
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Reviews
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Satisfied
Perfect copy
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Beautifully written
Doctorow writes the story of a young boy who gets involved with the Dutch Schultz mob beautifully. The story is very interesting. Although he is telling it in a straightforward way, his writing is very descriptive and you can visualize the situations and the venues. Some of the passages are worth reading over and over and could probably be used as an example fin a creative writing workshop..
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Shear beauty of prose
The notorious Dutch Schultz gang is revered by the young deprived boys of the Bronx, among them and no less impressed is Billy Bathgate who is keen to become involved, so when the chance arises he does not hold back and soon this precocious young fifteen year old finds himself accepted into the gang. This is the world of protection rackets, gang enforced business monopolies and tax evasion set against the background of drive by shootings and big black Packards. Billy's diligence, inventiveness and initiative is such that very soon Schultz is referring to Billy as his protege. We follow Billy's rise within the gang, and his various assignments through to the ultimate fate of the gang, and to what becomes of Billy thereafter. The shear beauty of the prose is enough to keep one going through this involving account, even if I did hesitate when just a few pages in it seemed we were going to witness a brutal gang retribution; while the horrors of gang life are there it never descended into any unnecessary gruesomeness, but maintains the emphasis on the individuality of the various characters, primarily the members of the gang and the beautiful young women who becomes involved with Schultz, and through such, Billy. Billy Bathgate is a most involving novel, the character of the title is most endearing, but above all it is the high quality of the flowing prose that is the real pleasure of this book.
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Un muy buen escritor
A mi modo de ver, una novela muy buena y muy bien escrita por uno de los mejores escritores norteamericanos contemporáneos. Interesante y muy recomendable.
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Five Stars
Excellent