Doctorow this week because it has been on my TBR shelf for as long as I can remember. With that goal in mind, I'm reading Billy Bathgate by E.

I'm making a big effort - a bigger effort than usual - to clear off my TBR shelves in 2021. If you post or share on social media, please use the #bookbeginnings hashtag so we can find each other. If you want to participate in the comments, just leave a comment with the opening sentence of the book, along with the title and author's name. Please link to your BBOF post not your home page or social media profile. If you post on your blog or social media, please link to your post in the linky below. You can play along on your own blog, social media, or in the comments below. 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.Welcome to Book Beginnings on Fridays, where we share the first sentence or so of the book we are enjoying this week. Doctorow's most convincing and appealing portrayal of a young boy's life. But it is also a world of extortion, brutality, and murder, where Billy finds himself involved in a dangerous affair with Schultz's girlfriend.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.

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. In 1930's New York, Billy Bathgate, a fifteen-year-old high-school dropout, has captured the attention of infamous gangster Dutch Schultz, who lures the boy into his world of racketeering. *Dust jacket has heavy creasing and a large sealed tear on upper back. Doctorow FIRST BOOK CLUB EDITION RANDOM HOUSEįull sized book club edition identical to the first edition.

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