A BAD RELATIONSHIP (1978) is a novel portraying a San Francisco cab driver whose life is complicated by intellectual and artistic endeavors, romance fraught with indecision, and struggles with drugs. This novel provides a realistic view of the San Francisco counterculture in the decade subsequent to the “flower child” era, when the Vietnam War was winding down and the city was changing from the beatnik-hippie jewel of the 1950’s and 1960’s to a modern city plagued with modern city problems. This novel depicts the cabbie world of constant motion, night-time lights, and often-carnival-type human interactions, and the cabbie intellectual scene with its authentic, often drug-induced philosophical and spiritual speculations.