Imprint
- Abacus
Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Thriller / suspense
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.
Praise for Tough Guys Don't Dance
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** '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
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** 'Hypnotic...thrilling. - MAIL ON SUNDAY
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** 'Think of it as a novel by Dashiell Hammett and transpose it into Mailer's style. - NEW YORK TIMES
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** 'Mailer writes like an angel- a master of small surprises that may be precursors of seismic shocks. - LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
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