Billy Bathgate: A Novel
by Doctorow, E.L
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0394525299
- ISBN 13
- 9780394525297
- Seller
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Summerville, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Books Tell You Why, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 33191
- Title
- Billy Bathgate: A Novel
- Author
- Doctorow, E.L
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394525299
- ISBN 13
- 9780394525297
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print, Mafia Crime Suspense Fiction, Mafia, Murder
- Bookseller catalogs
- Author Collections / Doctorow, E.L;
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- Spine
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- Chipping
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- Jacket
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- Cocked
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- Cloth
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.