I'll Go to Bed at Noon: A Novel

"A loving and harrowing account of the havoc alcohol can wreak on a family." —Sarah Lyall, New York Times

Colette Jones has had problems of her own with alcohol, but now it seems as though her whole family is in danger of turning to booze. Her oldest son, Janus, the family's golden boy, has wasted his talents as a concert pianist. His drinking sprees with his brother-in-law, Bill, a pseudo-Marxist supermarket butcher who sees alcohol as central to the proletarian revolution, have turned viol...