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''I was living in even greater circles of gangsterdom than I had dreamed, latitudes and longitudes of gangsterdom''

It''s 1930''s New York and fifteen-year-old streetkid Billy, who can juggle, somersault and run like the wind, has been taken under the wing of notorious gangster Dutch Schultz. As Billy learns the ways of the mob, he becomes like a son to Schultz - his ''good-luck kid'' - and is initiated into a world of glamour, death and danger that will consume him, in this vivid, soaring epic of crime and betrayal.

Billy Bathgate

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    A Paperback / softback by E. L. Doctorow

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: 04/08/2016
      ISBN13: 9780241256428, 978-0241256428
      ISBN10: 0241256429
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''I was living in even greater circles of gangsterdom than I had dreamed, latitudes and longitudes of gangsterdom''

      It''s 1930''s New York and fifteen-year-old streetkid Billy, who can juggle, somersault and run like the wind, has been taken under the wing of notorious gangster Dutch Schultz. As Billy learns the ways of the mob, he becomes like a son to Schultz - his ''good-luck kid'' - and is initiated into a world of glamour, death and danger that will consume him, in this vivid, soaring epic of crime and betrayal.

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