Time for Bed

Gabe's life is blighted by two problems, his insomnia and his passion for Alice, the beautiful black wife of his brother Ben.

The cast of comic characters includes Nick, his girlfriend Fran, a cat Jezebel, Ben and Gabe's parents and grandmother Mutti, who lives in a Jewish old age-home, Liv Dashem House.

Finding Alice's Green Flag card in her pocket, Dina agrees to pretend to be her sister to get help, but Gabe does not have sufficient funds to get the car repaired.

The first time they make love, Gabe disposes of the condom by filling it with water and tying the top, and notices a leak.

Jezebel brings home a dead rat, and Gabe spends a happy night playing with it, and then puts it away in a drawer and forgets it.

First edition (publ. Little, Brown )