![]() ![]() On this day, Billy's juggling act brings him the attention of Dutch Schultz, the notorious gangster from the news stories, who like Billy began in the East Bronx. Billy's story begins on a day in 1935 when these unrelated activities come into magical relationship with one another. Billy learns control over the powerful forces threatening his life in two unrelated activities: reading about gangland heroes and juggling on Bathgate Avenue. He lives in the East Bronx with his mother his father had abandoned them years earlier leaving Billy to make it on his own and Billy's mother in a state of permanent mental distraction. In Billy Bathgate, Doctorow returns to the Bronx of the 1930's to restore another dimension to that life.īilly Bathgate is a child of the Depression. In World's Fair, Doctorow brings everyday life in the Bronx of the 1930's back into recollection with a historian's clear eye for detail and texture. ![]() While the subject matter of these novels covers a time period of over 100 years-ranging from the Wild West in Welcome to Hard Times to the 1960's youth culture of The Book of Daniel-the setting to which Doctorow obsessively returns is that of New York City at around the time of his birth (1931). ![]() Doctorow has written eight novels for which he has received a number of prestigious awards. ![]()
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