Billy Bathgate

Description:

The story of Billy Bathgate, a boy who has insinuated himself into the inner circle of the notorious Dutch Schultz gang to become apprentice and protege to one of the great murdering gangsters.

subjects: New york (n.y.), fiction,  Fiction, historical, general,  Fiction, coming of age,  Fiction, city life,  American fiction (fictional works by one author),  Criminals, fiction,  Criminals,  Criminals in fiction,  Fiction,  Hoodlums,  National Book Critics Circle Award Winner,  PEN/Faulkner Award Winner,  Schultz, Dutch, in fiction,  award:national_book_critics_circle_award=1989,  award:national_book_critics_circle_award=fiction,  award:pen_faulkner_award=1990,  award:pen_faulkner_award=fiction,  Schultz, Dutch, 1900 or 1-1935,  Gangsters,  Fiction, historical,  Crime, fiction,  Depressions,  Nineteen thirties,  History,  New York Times reviewed,  Cultural Literacy and Humanities,  Reading Level-Adult

People: Dutch Schultz (1900 or 1-1935),  Dutch Schultz (1900 or 1901-1935)

Places: New York,  New York (N.Y.),  New York (State)