The Wrong Venus

by Charles Williams

Book Overview

The late Charles Williams is perhaps best known as a writer of taut action-adventure novels usually with a nautical tie in (Dead Calm, Scorpion Reef, etc). He also wrote the very compelling noir... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060806567
• ISBN13: 9780060806569
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A zany, screwball comedy by an unlikely author.

The late Charles Williams is perhaps best known as a writer of taut action-adventure novels usually with a nautical tie in (Dead Calm, Scorpion Reef, etc). He also wrote the very compelling noir masterpiece entitled The Hot Spot. The Wrong Venus therefore represents a 180 degree departure from William's usual literary fare. It's an over-the-top comedy about Americans in Paris. This very funny book is populated with a number of interesting characters. A spinsterish authoress of best selling sex drenched novels, some thoroughly inept kidnappers, a ruthless French gangster and a six foot tall blond beauty of a ghostwriter who's pretty good at judo... to name only a few. There's also plenty of slapstick action and an abundance of very clever dialogue. The Wrong Venus is a wonderfully entertaining showcase for a surprisingly different side to Charles William's substantial talent.

Histerically funny, a dynamite read from page 1, word 1

Why should one bother to review an out of print book? Because it is one very funny book. The plot is too convoluted to describe but involves a writer of bodice rippers, a blonde beauty and her Western novel writer buddy, a French gangster who gets shot with a crossbow... Order it and wait for it or search used bookstores for it