Having just gotten a bit more serious about reading Charles
Willeford's backlist, I just tonight completed THE WOMAN
CHASER, a wonderful and odd little book. But one thing that
immediately occured to me upon completion was the total
mistitling of the novel. For instance, (A) there were few
women characters in the book, (B) the main characters
certainly wasn't
"chasing" them, and (C) unless I missed some very very VERY
subtle subtext in the book, "chasing women" wasn't high on
our self-absorbed, sociopathic filmmaker's To Do List...while
spewing his bitterness toward his fellow man - and indeed his
own life - on celluloid certainly was.
I know there have been other books whose titles are
misleading but this one sure took the cake for me.
Ron Clinton
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