I found TOMCAT IN LOVE to be a mature, vivid, slightly humorous, unforgettable tale of lust, compulsion and disillusionment.

Thomas H. Chippering is a professor of Linguistics, who describes himself as something over 49 years of age with the height and features of our 16th president. He has been very depressed about the break-up of his 20 year marriage to Lorna Sue, the woman that he has loved since he was 7 years old. He wants her back, but two things stand in his way, Lorna Sue's new husband and her brother Herbie. Of course, Thomas refuses to admit that his fondness for women, especially his younger students at the University of Minnesota, could make him at least partly responsible for the break-up of his marriage.  Now he wants revenge, but before heading to Tampa where Lorna Sue is he heads for his hometown Owago, Minnesota to visit his boy hood home. While there a woman comes into his life, Mrs. Robert Kooshof who has experienced the same rejection Thomas has, so they deiced to help each other get revenge on Lorna Sue. From Minnesota to Tampa and back Thomas hatches evil plots for Lorna Sue. He flirts shamelessly with every woman he meets along the way. And after bouts of drunken rages and self-pitting moods he realizes what is really important to him and what makes life truly worth living. 

Go along with Thomas on his quest for happiness. Be prepared for a surprise ending.