The climax of his story is how he will become the protégé and surrogate son of the notorious mobster, Dutch Schultz. He is like a poor teenager telling us about his abject miseries, living in a squalid house in a huge city with his schizophrenic mother, abandoned by his Jewish father. First, Billy Bathgate is the narrator himself. However, I swallowed my words when I found the elements that comprise the whole story perfectly rhetorical. I even shrank back when I learned that it bears little resemblance to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. I could even predict the climax and ending in that I wanted to put it aside for a short while and look through the other book I could find gripping. I have watched its scenarios in movies several times. The concept of the story is not new to me. ( Lila is one of her finest works for me.) Besides, it attests to the fact that E.L Doctorow was a genius writer, and no wonder he was considered by former US President Barack Obama as one of America’s greatest contemporary writers he had exceptional skills in giving life to his novels steeped in American social issues.That’s why an Asian reader like me tends to engross myself in them. His writing style is kind of similar to Marilyne Robinson. Doctorow’s works, has supported my literary observation that the author himself appears to have the penchant for writing a novel riddled with lyrical narratives rather than writing one with conversational contents. L Doctorow’s novels regardless of their themes – war, gangster, romance, crime and so on.īilly Bathgate, since I have read two of E.L. Gee, fie on me, this is how I would figuratively feel when I read other E. But alas, I would be short of time because there were more plays I had to keep up with. When the show ended, I would still sit into my armchair musing over the lines that had just had an impact on me and wait for its second showing for the next batch who may have missed it. Rather, the deep, emotional, narrative, and lyrical execution of the narrator was enough to hold me in fascination.
I would disregard the background and backup actors illustrating the settings, plots, and dialogues.
I was like one of those members of the audience in a grand opera house, riveted on the presence of a passionate narrator, carried away by each and every line that went deeper into my heart until it displayed vivid imagination.
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