Billy Bathgate
Author: E.L. Doctorow
Librarian’s note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereOpen this book and enter through his own words the perilous, thrilling world of Billy Bathgate, the brazen boy who has insinuated himself into the inner circle of the notorious Dutch Schultz gang to become good-luck charm, apprentice and finally protege to one of the great murdering gangsters of his time.Meet th….Read More
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