Billy Bathgate
by Doctorow, E. L
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0333513762
- ISBN 13
- 9780333513767
- Seller
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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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
- The Book House in Dinkytown (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 317006
- Title
- Billy Bathgate
- Author
- Doctorow, E. L
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0333513762
- ISBN 13
- 9780333513767
- Publisher
- Macmillan London
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1989
- Size
- 9x6x1
- X weight
- 21 oz
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- Text Block
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- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....