Billy Bathgate

Name: Billy Bathgate
Author: E.L. Doctorow

by E.L. Doctorow

Young boy befriends mobster during Prohibition in Depression-era New York

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E.L. Doctorow

E.L. Doctorow was a major American historical novelist who blended fact and fiction in Ragtime and other novels to illuminate the hidden workings of American power and the lives of the dispossessed. He won the National Book Award, PEN/Faulkner, and other major prizes.

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RagtimeMusical, historical America from 1902 told through interwoven narratives
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