Billy Bathgate (44 page)

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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Copyright © 1989 by E. L. Doctorow

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Fred Ahlert Music Corporation and Henderson Music Company: Excerpts from the lyrics to “Bye Bye Blackbird,” lyrics by Mort Dixon, music by Ray Henderson. Copyright 1926. Copyright renewed 1953. All rights for the extended term administered by Fred Ahlert Music Corporation for Olde Clover Leaf Music and Henderson Music Company, c/o William Krasilovsky, Feinman and Krasilovsky. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Doctorow, E. L.
Billy Bathgate: a novel / E. L. Doctorow
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-76738-7
1. Schultz, Dutch, 1900 or 1-1935–Fiction.   2. Criminals–New York (State)–
New York–Fiction.   I. Title
PS3554.O3B55      1998
813′.54–dc21   98–19318

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