Hes my gangster.' She plays it that way too & gets a 5 star & you know why for. Dutchs girl friend is played by the ever beautiful Nicole Kidman who is married but tells Billy in relation to her being with Dutch 'No, Im not his gal. Converging mythology and history, one of America's most admired authors has captured the romance of gangsters and criminal enterprise that continues to fascinate the American psyche today. Loren Dean as Billy plays his part perfectly sometimes naive, sometimes streetwise. It’s a great, richly detailed book, combining real figures with fictional characters and scenarios, Doctorow’s blend that marked his Ragtime (the book and the film it inspired). Doctorow's most convincing and appealing portrayal of a young boy's life. Doctorow’s 1989 novel at just the right moment, as the title character was nearly the same age as me. Relive this story through the title character's driving narrative, a child's thoughts and feelings filtered through the sensibilities of an adult, and the result is E.L. In this fast-paced adventure novel, which takes quick tours of the Bronx, upstate New York, Saratoga, and the docks of Manhattan, Doctorow supplies the color. But it is also a world of extortion, brutality, and murder, where Billy finds himself involved in a dangerous affair with Schultz's girlfriend. The product of an East Bronx upbringing by his half-crazy Irish Catholic mother, after his Jewish father left them long ago, Billy is captivated by the world of money, sex, and high society the charismatic Schultz has to offer. Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer with more poetry. 'A wonderful addition to the ranks of American boy heroes. This text refers to the paperback edition.

In 1930's New York, Billy Bathgate, a fifteen-year-old highschool dropout, has captured the attention of infamous gangster Dutch Schultz, who lures the boy into his world of racketeering. Its 1930s 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.

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