Tough Guys Don't Dance - Hardcover

Mailer, Norman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375508740 ISBN 13: 9780375508745

Verlag: Random House Inc, 2002

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After an encounter with a woman who reminds him of the wife who deserted him, Timothy Madden awakens with fragmented memories and an agonizing suspicion that he commited murder. Reissue. 10,000 first printing.

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liant novel of astonishing pitch, set in Provincetown, a “spit of shrub and dune” captured here in the rawness and melancholy of the off-season, Tough Guys Don’t Dance is the story of Tim Madden, an unsuccessful writer addicted to bourbon, cigarettes, and blonde, careless women with money. On the twenty-fourth morning after the decampment of his wife, Patty Lareine, he awakens with a hangover, considerable sexual excitement, and, on his upper arm, a red tattoo bearing a name from the past. Of the night before, he remembers practically nothing. What he soon learns is that the front passenger seat of his Porsche is soaked with blood and that in a secluded corner of his marijuana stash in a nearby woods rests a blonde head, severed at the throat.
Is Madden therefore a murderer? He has no way of knowing. As in many novels of crime, the narrative centers on violence—physical, sexual, and emotional—but these elements move in their orbits through a rich conste

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• Verlag: Random House Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0375508740
• ISBN 13: 9780375508745
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 229