DOCTOROW, E. L. — Billy Bathgate

New York, Random House. 1989, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. 232pp. Brown cloth boards with gilt to front and spine. Unclipped dustjacket designed by Paul Bacon. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and received the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters for the best novel of the previous five-year period. The story of a fifteen-year-old high-school dropout who is lured into the world of racketeering by the infamous Dutch Schultz, and explores the dilemma of self-determination and fate. In perfect condition. Fine/Fine.