Upon returning to his home neighborhood, the lead character explains that he is "living in the very 
Upon returning to his home neighborhood, the lead character explains that he is "living in the very pulsebeat of the tabloids, distributed in printer's ink and hidden like the fox in the tree leaves on the puzzle page except that [he] was right in the middle of the centrally important news of our time." Set in the 1930's Bronx, this novel won the 1990 Pen/Faulkner Award and is about a 15-year-old who hooks up with a legendary mobster who introduces him to the ways of the world, training the teen to follow in his footsteps. FTP, name this E.L. Doctorow novel, which was made into a 1991 movie starring Nicole Kidman, Dustin Hoffman and Bruce Willis.
Upon returning to his home neighborhood, the lead character explains that he is "living in the very pulsebeat of the tabloids, distributed in printer's ink and hidden like the fox in the tree leaves on the puzzle page except that [he] was right in the middle of the centrally important news of our time.
{Billy Bathgate}