Description
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.
About the Author
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
** '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 *
Book Information
ISBN 9780349103273
Author Norman Mailer
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint Abacus
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Weight(grams) 209g
Dimensions(mm) 196mm * 128mm * 18mm
