Tough Guys Don't Dance
by Norman Mailer
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394537866
- ISBN 13
- 9780394537863
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About This Item
VERY GOOD condition — DUST JACKET: Minor wear to top and bottom edges of spine, panels, flaps and folds. Minor shelf rubbing to laminate face. BOARDS: Very good condition. Minor shelf rubbing. BOOK: Very good condition. No issues. Please inspect photos closely for condition details.
Here on offer is a very nice copy of Norman Mailer's noir thriller and murder mystery, Tough Guys Don't Dance, the basis for the 1987 film of the same name directed by Mailer. This copy is a 1st American trade edition, 1st printing of the work published by Random House in 1984.
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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
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"
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The above text was taken from Random House Publishing (via Google Books).
Synopsis
In Norman Mailer's Tough Guys Don't Dance, we meet a very unlucky guy named Tim Madden. One morning, Tim rolls out of bed with a terrible hangover, a new tattoo with his ex-girlfriend's name, blood all over his Porsche, and to top it off, two severed heads in his secret stash of marijuana in the woods. Now Tim is in trouble. He has to save himself from murderous attention, as well as figure out who put him in this situation!
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 344
- Title
- Tough Guys Don't Dance
- Author
- Norman Mailer
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394537866
- ISBN 13
- 9780394537863
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- USA
- Date Published
- 1984
- Keywords
- 1st printing
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