![]() ![]() In his spare time, Billy and his friends like to look through the windows of warehouses and shops where they know high-profile gangsters congregate. The two belong to an Irish-American family living in a low-income, working-class neighborhood on Bathgate Street in the Bronx, New York. At the beginning of the novel, Billy works at a laundry in order to scrape together enough money to support his mother, who suffers from schizophrenia. In 1991, the book was adapted into a film starring Dustin Hoffman. Billy Bathgate won numerous literary awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award. Doctorow’s historical novel Billy Bathgate (1989) tells the story of fifteen-year-old Billy Behar who is taken under the wing of the real-life Jewish-American mobster, Dutch Schultz. Set in the Bronx in the 1930s during the Prohibition Era, American author E.L. ![]()
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