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.
Genres
- New york (n.y.), fiction
- Fiction, historical, general
- Fiction, coming of age
- Fiction, city life
- American fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Criminals, fiction
- Criminals
- Criminals in fiction
- Fiction
- Hoodlums
- National Book Critics Circle Award Winner
- PEN/Faulkner Award Winner
- Schultz, Dutch, in fiction
- award:national_book_critics_circle_award=1989
- award:national_book_critics_circle_award=fiction
- award:pen_faulkner_award=1990
- award:pen_faulkner_award=fiction
- Schultz, Dutch, 1900 or 1-1935
- Gangsters
- Fiction, historical
- Crime, fiction
- Depressions
- Nineteen thirties
- History
- New York Times reviewed
- Cultural Literacy and Humanities
- Reading Level-Adult
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