Now in paperback
Tomcat in Love is the new novel by the author of Going After Cacciato--winner of the 1979 National Book Award and perhaps the definitive novel of the Vietnam War. It is an inventive, ironic, and humorous story about a man, Thomas Chippering, torn between two all-consuming but diametrically opposed obsessions: his desperate need to win back his wife, and his compulsive desire to test his erotic charms with every woman he meets. A New York Times Notable Book.

 
Tim O'Brien received the 1979 National Book Award for Fiction for his novel Going After Cacciato.  His novel The Things They Carried was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.  He is also the author of In the Lake of the Woods and tow other novels as well as If I Die in a Combat Zone, a Vietnam memoir.