# Tough Guys Don't Dance - Paperback

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by **Norman Mailer** (Author)

**"Spectacular . . . \[Norman Mailer\] makes every word count, like a master knife thrower zinging stilettos in a circle around your head."--_People_**

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_**

"As brash, brooding and ultimately mesmerizing as the author himself . . . \[Mailer strikes a\] dazzling balance between humor and horror."**\--New York _Daily News_**  
  
"A first-rate page-turner of a murder mystery . . . full of great characters, littered with dead bodies and replete with plausible suspects."**\--_Chicago Tribune_**  
  
"\[_Tough Guys Don't Dance_\] has that charming Mailer bravado."**\--_The New York Times_**  

### Author Biography

Born in 1923 in Long Branch, New Jersey, and raised in Brooklyn, New York, **Norman Mailer** was one of the most influential writers of the second half of the twentieth century and a leading public intellectual for nearly sixty years. He is the author of more than thirty books. _The Castle in the Forest,_ his last novel, was his eleventh _New York Times_ bestseller. His first novel, _The Naked and the Dead,_ has never gone out of print. His 1968 nonfiction narrative, _The Armies of the Night,_ won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He won a second Pulitzer for _The Executioner's Song_ and is the only person to have won Pulitzers in both fiction and nonfiction. Five of his books were nominated for National Book Awards, and he won a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Foundation in 2005. Mr. Mailer died in 2007 in New York City.

**Number of Pages:** 288

**Dimensions:** 0.66 x 8.11 x 5.22 IN

**Publication Date:** February 18, 2014

## Details

- **Price:** 27.0 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books, Fiction, Literary, Price Written on Book, Psychological, Suspense, Thrillers

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