TO BROOKLYN WITH LOVE by Gerald Green. 305 pages. Trident. $5.95.
Memory is a subtle liar and often a bad writer of fictionbut it can be a marvelous storyteller. Very early in this rush of remembrance of a Brooklyn boyhood 30 years ago, it is clear that Gerald Green has let memory do all the work. His hero, Albert Abrams, is a skinny, precocious, unheroic kid who tags fearfully after a gang of asphalt Iroquois called the Raiders. The book follows Albert and his heroesa splendidly underprivileged crew of dirty-cut young menthrough a wild...
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