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The Woman Chaser
Contributor(s): Willeford, Charles (Author)
ISBN: 1568582099     ISBN-13: 9781568582092
Publisher: Da Capo Press
OUR PRICE:   $18.99  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: August 2001
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Annotation: Richard Hudson, woman chaser and used car salesman, possesses a pimp's understanding of the ways in which women (and men) are most vulnerable. One day Richard decides to make an ambitious film, which turns into a fiasco. Enraged, he exacts revenge on all who have crossed him.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Psychological
Dewey: FIC
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.2" W x 7.82" (0.36 lbs) 196 pages
Themes:
- Locality - Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA
- Cultural Region - Southern California
- Geographic Orientation - California
- Cultural Region - Western U.S.
- Cultural Region - West Coast
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:
A pitilessly hilarious dissection of the American male psyche.--Chicago Tribune

Richard Hudson, an inveterate woman-chaser and gifted used car salesman, possesses a pimp's understanding of the ways in which women (and men) are most vulnerable -- and justifies his seductions with a highly perverse logic. By day, he works his crooked car lot with much success. By night, he returns home to a family of misfits: an adoring, ageless mother; her washed-up husband, an ex-film director who is twenty years her junior; and a curious teenage stepsister ripe for corruption.

One day Richard is seized by a feeling of terror and revulsion; he realizes he's wasting his life in the meaningless pursuit of money. His only hope, he decides, is to abandon the used-car game and try his hand at something creative--an ambitious and risk-laden film project that will tie up in a single package his reason for existing.

Richard completes his cherished project. But forces beyond his control swiftly reject and destroy it. As a result, the enraged and humiliated used-car salesman goes on a bender for the ages, drinking his way through the underbelly of Los Angeles and exacting a monstrous revenge on all who have crossed him.

The most eloquently brainy and exacting pulp-fiction ever fabricated!--Village Voice
No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford.--Elmore Leonard