Billy later finds and infiltrates Schultz's offices without being seen, resulting in Schultz's accountant and trusted advisor Otto Berman agreeing to take him into the gang. When Billy demonstrates his skill at juggling, an amused Schultz calls him a "capable boy" and tips him. One afternoon, Billy is present when infamous Jewish mobster Dutch Schultz arrives to inspect a shipment of illegal beer. Plot summary īilly Behan is an impoverished fifteen-year-old living in The Bronx with his mother. Ī film based on the novel was released in 1991 to very mixed reviews. Doctorow that won the 1989 National Book Critics Circle award for fiction for 1990, the 1990 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the 1990 William Dean Howells Medal, and was the runner-up for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize and the 1989 National Book Award. Billy Bathgate is a 1989 novel by author E.
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