Three Complete Novels: Billy Bathgate / World's Fair / Loon Lake

by E.L. Doctorow

A collection of three novels by the best-selling author of Ragtime and the winner of the 1989 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction includes Billy Bathgate, World's Fair, and Loon Lake.

Genres: Fiction

658 pages, Hardcover

First published May 8, 1994

About the author

History based known novels of American writer Edgar Laurence Doctorow. His works of fiction include Homer & Langley, The March, Billy Bathgate, Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, City of God, Welcome to Hard Times, Loon Lake, World’s Fair, The Waterworks, and All the Time in the World. Among his honors are the National Book Award, three National Book Critics Circle Awards, two PEN Faulkner Awards, The Edith Wharton Citation for Fiction, and the presidentially conferred National Humanities Medal. In 2009 he was short listed for the Man Booker International Prize honoring a writer’s lifetime achievement in fiction, and in 2012 he won the PEN Saul Bellow Award given to an author whose “scale of achievement over a sustained career places him in the highest rank of American Literature.” In 2013 the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded him the Gold Medal for Fiction.

Reviews

[Monica Perez · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved all of these books. Billy Bathgate was best, then world's fair and loon lake lost me a little but was still good.

[Brad · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read Billy Bathgate out of the trio in this volume.

Really enjoyable, fast paced book. Quick read. Was surprised to find the ways in which the writing was at least a somewhat nonstandard.

[Sharon Ewell · Rating 5 out of 5]

He is a remarkable writer. Billy Bathgate alone was worth five stars.