To Brooklyn With Love Author:Gerald Green The setting is Brownsville, a decaying yet stubbornly vital neighborhood of old two-story homes and crumbling tene-ments. The time is the Depression, that era of murdered hopes and betrayed promises, and the action takes place on a single breathless day in July, 1934. The Ullysses of Mr. Green's narrative is Albert Abrahms, 12 - nearsighted, und... more »ersized, cursed w/weak ankles and flabby muscles, the last man chosen for the ringalevio teams even though he boasts the highest IQ in the history of School 133. Albert's father is a doctor, and the Depression casts its shadow over Dr. Abrahms' life: he is tortured w/fears of a sickening fall from sanity, a total loss of confidence. Paralleling his father's crisis is Albert's serio-comic striving for an ounce of status, a smidgen of bravery in a street of terror. For Longview Ave. in midsummer is a breeding ground for ogres, like the insatiable Bushy Feinstein, captain of the Raiders, or his rival, the monstrous Isadore Zetzkin, a Gorgon of such horrible mien that Albert cannot look upon him, or the savage little Lee Roy.« less