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Billy Bathgate

A Novel

by E.L. Doctorow
Mark Deakins
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To listen to this audiobook is to enter the perilous, thrilling world of Billy Bathgate, the brazen boy who is accepted into the inner circle of the notorious Dutch Schultz gang. Like an urban Tom Sawyer, Billy takes us along on his fateful adventures as he becomes good-luck charm, apprentice, and finally protégé to one of the great murdering gangsters of the Depression-era underworld in New York City. The luminous transformation of fact into fiction that is E. L. Doctorow’s trademark comes to triumphant fruition in Billy Bathgate, a peerless coming-of-age tale and one of Doctorow’s boldest and most beloved bestsellers.
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Fred Ahlert Music Corporation and Henderson Music Company: Excerpts from the lyrics to “Bye Bye Blackbird,” lyrics by Mort Dixon, music by Ray Henderson. Copyright 1926. Copyright renewed 1953. All rights for the extended term administered by Fred Ahlert Music Corporation for Olde Clover Leaf Music and Henderson Music Company, c/o William
Krasilovsky, Feinman and Krasilovsky. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Bourne Co./New York Music Publishers: Excerpt from the lyrics to “Me and My Shadow,” words by Billy Rose, music by Al Jolson and Dave Dreyer. Copyright 1927 Borune Co. Copyright renewed, International Copyright secured. All rights reserved. Used by permission. The Songwriters Guild of America and CPP Belwin, Inc.: Excerpt from the lyrics to “The One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else,” by Gus Kahn and Isham Jones. Copyright 1924. U.S. rights renewed 1980 Gilbert Keyes Music and Bantam Music. Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.: Excerpt from the lyrics to “Limehouse Blues,” by Philip Braham and Douglas Furber. Copyright 1922 Warner Bros. Inc. (Renewed). All rights reserved. Used by permission.

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  • Release date

    March 4, 2014

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780804149648
      • File size: 324310 KB
      • Duration: 11:15:38

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      William Lavelle's delivery is deliberate, and he punctuates his sentences in a way that is far from natural. Yet the genius of his performance quickly becomes apparent as his reading fixes attention on the radiance of E.L. Doctorow's writing in this, perhaps his most fully realized novel. The story follows Billy, a New York street urchin, who becomes a junior member of a gang headed by one of the most notorious mobsters of the era, the volatile, murderous, and increasingly unhinged Dutch Schultz. With perfect pacing and modulation, Lavelle captures the hilarity, acuity, and richness that make this a quintessential American coming-of-age masterpiece. M.O. (c) AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine

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