I read several reviews of the print version on Amazon before getting this. Would you consider the audio edition of Billy Bathgate to be better than the print version? Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.: Excerpt from the lyrics to 'Limehouse Blues', by Philip Braham and Douglas Furber. rights renewed 1980 Gilbert Keyes Music and Bantam Music. 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 renewed, International Copyright secured.

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. All rights for the extended term administered by Fred Ahlert Music Corporation for Olde Clover Leaf Music and Henderson Music Company, c/o William Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material: Fred Ahlert Music Corporation and Henderson Music Company: Excerpts from the lyrics to 'Bye Bye Blackbird', lyrics by Mort Dixon, music by Ray Henderson. 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 best sellers. The luminous transformation of fact into fiction that is E.

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. 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.

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