Tomcat in Love
by Tim O'Brien
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Author: Tim O'BrienEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-09-01
ISBN: 0767902041
Number of pages: 342
Publisher: Broadway
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Book Review: A Wonderfully Detestable, Delusional Character!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the story of Thomas H. Chippering, as told by Thomas H. Chippering, who should be the poster child for the "Unreliable Narrator" that every literature major is forced to study. He's as deplorable and self-obsessed as Ignatius Reilly in "Confederacy Of Dunces," as morally hazy as Humbert Humbert in "Lolita," and he's presented with circumstances as funny as any invented by T. Coraghessan Boyle, Joseph Heller or Eric Kraft. The lengths to which Chippering will go to avenge the loss of his beloved Lorna Sue, and the offenses he commits along the way, comprise some of the most absorbing fiction I've ever read. There isn't a dull passage in the book, and there are many that are so densely packed with visceral humor that they justify repeated re-readings. One chapter in particular, where Chippering auditions to replace the deceased M.C. of a local cable access children's show -- only to suffer a nervous breakdown on the set -- is so profoundly tragic and funny that it gave me goosebumps. Tim O'Brien may be the most underappreciated author in America today, despite -- or maybe because of -- his agonizingly realistic portraits of the American war effort in Viet Nam. The fact is that O'Brien is a powerfully descriptive and ingenious storyteller, and this is one of his most engaging books. In some respects it is a far cry from "The Things They Carried" and "Going After Cacciato," but in other respects "Tomcat In Love" is the perfect successor and complement to those hard and poignant war classics.
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