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