To Brooklyn with Love

New York: Trident Press/Simon & Schuster, 1967. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Hardcover BCE Book in Very Good Condition with a Good Vintage Jacket protected in clear archiaval sleeve. The setting of this story is Brownsville, a decaying, stubbornly vital neighborhood of old two-story homes and crumbling tenements. The time is the Depression (the Great), that time of murdered promises and betrayed hopes. The action takes place on a single day in July 1934. The theme is the search for courage, the art of survival under stress. Gerald Green peoples his novel with many unique and memorable characters. The protagonist, Albert Abrams, is 12, nearsighted, undersized, with flabby muscles and the highest IQ in the history of Public School 133. He and his father, Doctor Abrams, each have their own struggles--and there are two important weapons in this struggle--unselfish love and the sensible application of the intellect. The doctor's unqualified love for his son and Albert's confused response lie at the heart of this poignant and honest memoir of American city life in the 1930s. Binding of dark brown full cloth with sharp and bright gilt titles, very clean and unmarked; edges and spine ends rubbed, light wear to corners. Square, sharp corners, tight and solid binding. Interior is very clean and free of any markings, no creasing. Vintage jacket with boy with baseball and bat on street in front of brownstones, in reds, browns--painting by Paul Davis. Chipped and scuffed at spine ends, chipped at corners, rubbed--but quite nice looking. .305 pages. 6 x 8.5 inches. Simon & Schuster, NY 1967.