["First Edition (stated). RANDOM HOUSE, NY 1989. Back in the Bronx of the 1930s, 15-year-old Billy Bathgate hooks up with a legendary mobster named Dutch Schultz. After Billy falls for Schulz's latest girlfriend, he begins to question the actions of the mob he was so eager to join. Bathgate seeks to protect the young woman, he gains strength in following his own heart and makes a courageous passage from boyhood to adulthood. The book is the winner of the 1990 PEN\/Faulkner Award."]