From: bridegam@pacbell.net   
      
   Gene Zitver wrote:   
      
   > Martha Bridegam wrote   
   >   
   > >So that's the real thing, hm?   
   > >   
   > >It's something else to read that after getting to the version that's the   
   > >climax   
   > >of *Billy Bathgate*. The text runs differently in the novel, tho, doesn't   
   it?   
   >   
   > The version in the novel is different, although it contains many of the same   
   > words and phrases. Whether Doctorow rewrote it, or whether there's more than   
   > one version of Schultz's dying words, I can't say.   
   >   
   > Gene   
      
   Thanks. I gave away my copy after reading it.   
      
   Getting back around to an Orwell topic (sort of), parts of that book were   
   embarrassingly heavy on the pulp violence. So knowing Doctorow isn't a hack   
   makes   
   ya wonder, was he trying to say something subtle about what gangster novels are   
   like, or was he just plain writing a gangster novel?   
      
   /M   
      
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