Tough Guys Don't Dance
Tough Guys Don't Dance book cover

Tough Guys Don't Dance

Hardcover – July 12, 1984

Price
$9.49
Format
Hardcover
Pages
229
Publisher
Random House
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-0394537863
Weight
1.22 pounds

Description

From the Inside Flap l that is as brash and brooding and ultimately as mesmerizing as the author himself...The dazzling balance betwen humor and horror keeps us plunging on....As for characters, each is a gem....It is a book to read with infinite pleasures."NEW YORK DAILY NEWSTim Madden awakes one morning with a gruesome hangover, a painful tatoo on his upper arm, blood all over the passenger seat of his Porsche, a severed female head in his marijuana stash, and almost no memory of his actions on the preceding evening. He is about to discover what they were and what he is.... From the Paperback edition. "A novel that is as brash and brooding and ultimately as mesmerizing as the author himself...The dazzling balance betwen humor and horror keeps us plunging on....As for characters, each is a gem....It is a book to read with infinite pleasures."NEW YORK DAILY NEWSTim Madden awakes one morning with a gruesome hangover, a painful tatoo on his upper arm, blood all over the passenger seat of his Porsche, a severed female head in his marijuana stash, and almost no memory of his actions on the preceding evening. He is about to discover what they were and what he is.... "From the Paperback edition.

Features & Highlights

  • "A novel that is as brash and brooding and ultimately as mesmerizing as the author himself...The dazzling balance betwen humor and horror keeps us plunging on....As for characters, each is a gem....It is a book to read with infinite pleasures."NEW YORK DAILY NEWSTim Madden awakes one morning with a gruesome hangover, a painful tatoo on his upper arm, blood all over the passenger seat of his Porsche, a severed female head in his marijuana stash, and almost no memory of his actions on the preceding evening. He is about to discover what they were and what he is....
  • From the Paperback edition.

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EXCELLENT READ

Crime novel by Mailer, takes place in Provincetown, Mass. Gritty and intense. Very good read and hard to put down.
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