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Fiction
Title: Tomcat in Love Author: Tim O'Brien Rating:  Excellent!
Publisher: Broadway Books, 1998 Reviewed by: Jonathan Shipley |
 
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If you've perused the new book selection at your local bookstore lately, you've seen Tim O'Brien's new book, "Tomcat in Love." Why? It's obnoxious. The cover is a bright green neon with a picture of a flower growing out of the fly of a pair of boxer shorts. It's obnoxious, but you like it and laugh anyway. In the book you meet linguistics professor Thomas H. Chippering, aka Tomcat, an obnoxious, pompous, sexist, self-described ladies man. He's offensive, but you like him and laugh anyway. His ex-wife, the faithless Lorna Sue, has now taken up with a suntanned tycoon. He's understandably distraught, a man such as he, and he must find a way to soothe his aching heart. Revenge. If Chippering can't get Lorna Sue back, at least he can exact revenge. He has plans for Lorna Sue and her tycoon, as well as for her loathsome brother, Herbie. All the while he pines for his ex-wife, Mrs. Robert Kooshof enters, a woman with whom his longing for intimacy may be satiated. Tim O'Brien, a critically acclaimed author about the battles of the Vietnam War, now takes on the battle of the sexes. O'Brien, an author who has previously written about the serious depths of the human condition, now has made a laugh-out-loud comedy.
At the bookstore you pick up the book, as obnoxious as it
is, and sit on a couch in the corner. You read quietly. But
soon the employees will ask you to leave because you're
laughing out loud. It's "Tomcat in Love," and you like it.
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