The title character laments the fate of his mother-in-law Tennie, who is left by her playboy ex-husband. The protagonist is equally appalled at the Freudian analysis his therapist, Edvig, offers him. Before returning to his house in Ludeyville, he gets into a car accident while taking his daughter June to the zoo and gets arrested for carrying a gun. He contemplates his relationships with Daisy, Zipporah, Sono, and Ramona as well as his friend Valentine Gersbach, who cuckolded him. FTP, identify this novel about a man who pens letters to historical personages while worrying about his divorce from Madeline, written by 
The title character laments the fate of his mother-in-law Tennie, who is left by her playboy ex-husband. The protagonist is equally appalled at the Freudian analysis his therapist, Edvig, offers him. Before returning to his house in Ludeyville, he gets into a car accident while taking his daughter June to the zoo and gets arrested for carrying a gun. He contemplates his relationships with Daisy, Zipporah, Sono, and Ramona as well as his friend Valentine Gersbach, who cuckolded him. FTP, identify this novel about a man who pens letters to historical personages while worrying about his divorce from Madeline, written by Saul Bellow.
The title character laments the fate of his mother-in-law Tennie, who is left by her playboy ex-husband.
Herzog