![]() ![]() The boys admire the mobsters for how they have lifted themselves up financially by refusing to live by the rules of society. 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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