Tough Guys Don't Dance
Tough Guys Don't Dance
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Summary
A journey into the dark recesses of the American psyche in which a hapless writer with a passion for drink and rich women finds he has a bad case of alcoholic amnesia and must try to reconstruct the missing hours of a terrible evening that resulted in his car being drenched in blood. A crime novel from the author of THE AMERICAN DREAM.
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Tough Guys Don't Dance by Norman Mailer
Tim Madden, an unsuccessful writer with a penchant for nicotine, alcohol and blondes with money, struggles towards consciousness twenty-four days and nights after his wife has left him. He has a bad case of alcohol amnesia, a fresh and throbbing tattoo and a car drenched in blood. Just to make his hangover complete, Provincetown's Chief of Police would like a quiet word... So begins Madden's disquieting journey into the dark recesses of America's psyche. TOUGH GUYS DON'T DANCE is Norman Mailer at his tough, raw and uncompromising best. And Madden's tormented efforts to reconstruct the missing hours of a terrible evening turn, inevitably into fragments of the American Nightmare.
** 'Hypnotic..thrilling. * MAIL ON SUNDAY *
** 'Mailer writes like an angel- a master of small surprises that may be precursors of seismic shocks. * LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS, CHICAGO TRIBUNE *
** 'Think of it as a novel by Dashiell Hammett and transpose it into Mailer's style. * NEW YORK TIMES *
** 'Mailer writes like an angel- a master of small surprises that may be precursors of seismic shocks. * LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS, CHICAGO TRIBUNE *
** 'Think of it as a novel by Dashiell Hammett and transpose it into Mailer's style. * NEW YORK TIMES *
After graduating from Harvard Norman Mailer served in the South Pacific during World War II. He published his first book in 1948 and won the Pulitzer Price twice for THE ARMIES OF THE NIGHT and THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780349103273 |
| ISBN 10 | 0349103275 |
| Title | Tough Guys Don't Dance |
| Author | Norman Mailer |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 1992-11-26 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |