THE PAINTER GABRIEL by Donald Newlove. 313 pages. McCall. $6.95.
Nether sections of Avenue B provide the Boschian landscape of Hell. They swarm with dreadful objects: flaking $65 walk-ups and urine-stained corridors, a cat skinned live in the alley, bums and glue-sniffing Puerto Rican delinquents, burst trash bags and rusty fire escapes. All these things, lit by the glare of burning cars and the flash of pot or amphetamine, are the backdrop to one of the best fictional studies of madness, descent and purification that any American has written since Ken Kesey's One Flew...
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