{"product_id":"the-woman-chaser-9781568582092","title":"The Woman Chaser","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A pitilessly hilarious dissection of the American male psyche.\"--\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The most eloquently brainy and exacting pulp-fiction ever fabricated!\"--\u003ci\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford.\"--Elmore Leonard\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles Willeford\u003c\/b\u003e (1919-1988) was an American writer of fiction, poetry, autobiography, and literary criticism, He is best known for his series of novels featuring hardboiled detective Hoke Moseley.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Da Capo Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50527863046418,"sku":"9781568582092","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_95426782-4910-436e-9537-866aa825b592.jpg?v=1731315785","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-woman-chaser-9781568582092","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}