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Book Review of Billy Bathgate

Billy Bathgate
Billy Bathgate
Author: E. L. Doctorow
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 3


I couldn't put this book down. I read it the first time when it was originally published and it was just as good, or better the second time. D. L. Doctorow is a marvelous author and actually paints visual images with his long, run-on sentences. A good read about a teenage boy who becomes a part-time operative in Dutch Schultz's gang in the l930's. Loved it!!