A Jewish comic novel, driven by a humour which is both black and bittersweet. A road movie of the mind, it follows Bernard Steinway-an alienated, isolated Jewish intellectual-as he attempts to find a sense of purpose following the collapse of his marriage. His search is both desperate and deluded moving from one self-inflicted disaster to another. In the end he believes himself cured and finally leaves his therapist-he may be convinced that he has regained his sanity but the rest of us know better. "Unceasingly witty and incisive. This is an exceedingly well written, wonderfully arresting debut."-"The Times"