Billy Bathgate

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Young Billy Bathgate witnesses atrocities of the crime world in his introduction to a brutal and unsparing life that takes him through the heart of the city and the rural underworld in Depression-era America

Genres: FictionHistorical FictionCrimeLiterary FictionLiteratureAmericanHistoricalNovelsNew YorkClassics

484 Pages

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