Tough Guys Don't Dance by Norman Mailer

Tough Guys Don't Dance by Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer peers into the recesses and buried virtues of the modern American male in a brilliant crime novel that transcends genre. When Tim Madden, an unsuccessful writer living on Cape Cod, awakes with a gruesome hangover, a painful tattoo on his upper arm, and a severed female head in his marijuana stash, he has almost no memory of the night before. As he reconstructs the missing hours, Madden runs afoul of retired prizefighters, sex addicts, mediums, former cons, a world-weary ex-girlfriend, and his own father, old now but still a Herculean figure. Stunningly conceived and vividly composed, Tough Guys Don't Dance represents Mailer at the peak of his powers.

Praise for Tough Guys Don't Dance

Spectacular . . . Norman Mailer] makes every word count, like a master knife thrower zinging stilettos in a circle around your head.--People

As brash, brooding and ultimately mesmerizing as the author himself . . . Mailer strikes a] dazzling balance between humor and horror.--New York Daily News

A first-rate page-turner of a murder mystery . . . full of great characters, littered with dead bodies and replete with plausible suspects.--Chicago Tribune

Tough Guys Don't Dance] has that charming Mailer bravado.--The New York Times

Praise for Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer] loomed over American letters longer and larger than any other writer of his generation.--The New York Times

A writer of the greatest and most reckless talent.--The New Yorker

Mailer is indispensable, an American treasure.--The Washington Post

A devastatingly alive and original creative mind.--Life

Mailer is fierce, courageous, and reckless and nearly everything he writes has sections of headlong brilliance.--The New York Review of Books

The largest mind and imagination in modern] American literature . . . Unlike just about every American writer since Henry James, Mailer has managed to grow and become richer in wisdom with each new book.--Chicago Tribune

Mailer is a master of his craft. His language carries you through the story like a leaf on a stream.--The Cincinnati Post

From the Paperback edition.

Norman Mailer (1923-2007) was one of the best and most important writers of the twentieth century, as well as one of America's most well-known and divisive literary characters. He wrote stage plays, screenplays, television miniseries, hundreds of articles, two books of poetry, and a collection of short tales in addition to being the best-selling author of a dozen novels and 20 works of nonfiction. He lived in Brooklyn, New York, and Provincetown, Massachusetts, and was a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner.

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ISBN 13	9780812986112
ISBN 10	0812986113
Title	Tough Guys Don't Dance
Author	Norman Mailer
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2014-02-18
Number of pages	288
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