A MOTHER'S KISSES by Bruce Jay Friedman. 286 pages. Simon & Schuster. $4.95.
Seventeen-year-old Joseph, the beleaguered anti-hero of Bruce Jay Friedman's second novel, is subjected to nearly as many adolescent indignities as his Biblical namesake had to suffer. Instead of being tossed down a well by envious brothers, this Joseph is tyrannized by his mother Meg, a bosomy termagant with some of the less attractive qualities of Medea, Medusa and Jocasta.
Defective Plumbing. Harrowed by fear that he will not get into college, Joseph is plucked from Brooklyn's comforting concrete and deposited in...
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