The Woman Chaser Contributor(s): Willeford, Charles (Author) |
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ISBN: 1568582099 ISBN-13: 9781568582092 Publisher: Da Capo Press OUR PRICE: $18.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2001 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 |
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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 |