Tough Guys Don'T Dance
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st uk ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: No markings
A darkly atmospheric noir thriller, Tough Guys Don't Dance chronicles the harrowing ordeal of Tim Madden, a down-on-his-luck writer living in Provincetown, Massachusetts, who awakens one morning with no memory of the night before, a tattoo he doesn't recognize, and blood in his car. As the bodies of two decapitated women surface and evidence mounts against him, Madden spirals through a labyrinth of paranoia, guilt, and small-town corruption, unsure whether he is a murderer or a victim of an elaborate frame. Norman Mailer constructs the narrative with brooding, literary intensity, weaving together themes of masculinity, moral decay, and the treacherous nature of memory against the bleak, off-season backdrop of Cape Cod. The novel moves with relentless suspense, its prose sharp and unsparing, cementing it as one of Mailer's most gripping and psychologically complex works of fiction.
Author: Norman Mailer
Format: Hardback
Published: 1984, Michael Joseph London
Edition: 1st uk ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: No markings
A darkly atmospheric noir thriller, Tough Guys Don't Dance chronicles the harrowing ordeal of Tim Madden, a down-on-his-luck writer living in Provincetown, Massachusetts, who awakens one morning with no memory of the night before, a tattoo he doesn't recognize, and blood in his car. As the bodies of two decapitated women surface and evidence mounts against him, Madden spirals through a labyrinth of paranoia, guilt, and small-town corruption, unsure whether he is a murderer or a victim of an elaborate frame. Norman Mailer constructs the narrative with brooding, literary intensity, weaving together themes of masculinity, moral decay, and the treacherous nature of memory against the bleak, off-season backdrop of Cape Cod. The novel moves with relentless suspense, its prose sharp and unsparing, cementing it as one of Mailer's most gripping and psychologically complex works of fiction.