The best known literary precedent is no doubt Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884). Cited in a famous remark by Ernest Hemingway as a major source for "all American literature," Twain's classic account of a young boy who must reckon with the moral problems of an adult world is certainly an important model for Doctorow. Billy follows in the footsteps.....
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