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Tough Guys Don´t Dance
Norman Mailer
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Description for Tough Guys Don´t Dance
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 17. Weight in Grams: 186.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349103273
SKU
V9780349103273
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Ref
99-50
About Norman Mailer
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.
Reviews for Tough Guys Don´t Dance
'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