num_pages: 196
description: "A pitilessly hilarious dissection of the American male psyche."-- Chicago TribuneRichard 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 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
language: English
title: The Woman Chaser
titlecomplete: The Woman Chaser
characters: Richard Hudson
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, 20th Century, Pulp, Hard Boiled, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Noir, Novels
ratings_count: 725
publisher: Da Capo Press