Tough Guys Don't Dance
$26.80
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
5 January 1993
Summary
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.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349103273 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349103275 |
| Author: | Norman Mailer |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 5 January 1993 |
| Weight: | 178g |
| Dimensions: | 132mm x 200mm x 17mm |
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** ‘Think of it as a novel by Dashiell Hammett and transpose it into Mailer’s style.
** ‘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 ** ‘A First-rate murder mystery the suspense is as finely tuned as in any of the best films of Hitchcock.’ CHICAGO TRIBUNE ** ‘Think of it as a novel by Dashiell Hammett and transpose it into Mailer’s style.’ NEW YORK TIMES
About The Author
Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer graduated from Harvard and served in the South Pacific during World War II. He published his first book in 1948 and won the Pulitzer Prize twice for THE ARMIES OF THE NIGHT and THE EXECUTIONER’S SONG.
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