Billy Bathgate
by Doctorow, E.L. (Edgar Laurence)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0333513762
- ISBN 13
- 9780333513767
- Seller
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Galway, Ireland
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About This Item
London : Macmillan, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 323p. ; 24cm. Subjects: United States -- Fiction.
Synopsis
Billy Bathgate is a 1989 novel by author E. L. Doctorow that won the 1989 National Book Critics Circle award for fiction for 1990 and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and was the runner up for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize . The story is told in the first person by Billy "Bathgate" Behan, a fifteen-year-old boy who first becomes the gofer and then surrogate son of mobster Dutch Schultz.
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- Bookseller
- MW Books Ltd. (IE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 296379
- Title
- Billy Bathgate
- Author
- Doctorow, E.L. (Edgar Laurence)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 3
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0333513762
- ISBN 13
- 9780333513767
- Publisher
- London : Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1989
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