> 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.
..as often happened with CW, the title was changed by the
publisher - he originally wanted to call it THE
DIRECTOR.
.Juha.
Charles Willeford: http://www.saunalahti.fi/~jtlin/cw/
The Woman Chaser: http://www.saunalahti.fi/~jtlin/twc/
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