In this wildly funny brilliantly inventive novel Tim O Brien has created the ultimate character for our times Thomas Chippering a 6 6 professor of linguistics is a man torn between two obsessions the desperate need to win back his former wife the faithless Lorna Sue and a craving to test his erotic charms on every woman he meets But there are complications including Lorna Sue s brother Herbie with whom she has an all too close relationship and the considerable charms of Chippering s new love the attractive and of course already married Mrs Robert Kooshof who may at last satisfy Chippering s longing for intimacy In Tomcat in Love Tim O Brien takes on the battle of the sexes with astonishing results By turns hilarious outrageous romantic and deeply moving this is one of the most talked about novels in years a novel for this and every age In this wildly funny brilliantly inventive novel Tim O Brien has created the ultimate character for our times Thomas Chippering a 6 6 professor of linguistics is a man torn between two obsessions the desperate need to win back his former wife the faithless Lorna Sue and a craving to test his erotic charms on every woman he meets But there are complications including Lorna Sue s brother Herbie with whom she has an all too close relationship and the considerable charms of Chippering s new love the attractive and of course already married Mrs Robert Kooshof who may at last satisfy Chippering s longing for intimacy InTomcat in Love Tim O Brien takes on the battle of the sexes with astonishing results By turns hilarious outrageous romantic and deeply moving this is one of the most talked about novels in years a novel for this and every age.
