A Much-Married Man

　　Much-Married Writer tells all in new novel. Guggenheim Award-winner Robert Sward tells the story of that rarity, a five-times married, one-woman man. Calling up the social-sexual history of the times, journalist Noah Newmark re-visits the 1950s, 60s, 70s and 80s and the spouses with whom he shared those decades, in an all-out effort to keep his fifth and current marriage alive.

The New York Times Book Review

He has a voice and a range.

Rosemary Sullivan, Governor General's Award Winner

　　Robert Sward's hilarious novel draws you in until you find it's yourself you're laughing at. He's got his finger on all our neuroses and, with grace, helps us to exorcise them.

Diane Johnson

　　A Much-Married Man is a great success. It's funny and poignant. One feels [Noah Newmark] is going to learn something by the end, but there is suspense - wondering what... Very funny on the counterculture.

Robert Priest

　　That rarity, a five-times married, one-woman man, Robert Sward in his randy wisdom tracks the bonding place, the breaking place, the melting place with wit, angst, humor and poetry. On behalf of all of us, he brings his muse face to face with the greatest challenge of all - the beloved!

Midwest Book Review

　　A Much-Married Man tells the story of a five-times married, one woman man. Calling up the social-sexual history of the times, ex-sports writer Noah Newmark revisits the last five decades and those spouses with whom he shared those decades in an all-out effort to keep his fifth and current marriage alive. A fast-paced comedy of manners with good clean dirty sex set in Northern California, A Much-Married Man sets real-world truths into the context of a rousing good novel as it struggles with those continuing questions of why do people, once divorced, re-marry? How, after a hellish, crazy[making divorce, do these people manage to recover to the point that they can put themselves at risk again? A Much-Married Man bears out an old Mormon observation, that the American gentiles are polygamist too -- they merely preferred their wives one at a time.