The Christmas Kid: And Other Brooklyn Stories

A collection of short stories about a long-gone Brooklyn from the legendary New York writer Pete Hamill.

Pete Hamill's collected stories about Brooklyn present a New York almost lost but not forgotten. They read like messages from a vanished age, brimming with nostalgia: for the world after the war, the days of the Dodgers and Giants, and even, for some, the years of Prohibition and the Depression.

The Christmas Kid is vintage Hamill. Set in the borough where he was born and raised, it is a...