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| Tough Guys Don't Dance |  | Author: Norman Mailer
Publisher: M Joseph
Category: Book
List Price: £8.95
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 503835
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 231
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0718124545
EAN: 9780718124540
ASIN: 0718124545
Publication Date: October 15, 1984
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Condition: 1985 BCA.Ed.Outer edge of pages marked.Dustjacket and interior VG.Same day postage in UK.
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Tough, hard-boiled, brilliance March 22, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Norman Mailer is a bit of an enigma; I have read several of his books, "the Fight", "Naked and the Dead", "Harlot's Ghost" and he cannot be said to have ever written consistently in an particular genre. In this he tries his hand at the hard-boiled, no-detail-missing, James Ellroy style thriller. This is good stuff by any standard. There is an overwhelming seediness throughout the whole book; no character has any qualms about philandering , murdering, drug-taking or disposing of the bodies. As a one-time visitor to Provincetown I never would have guessed that, beneath the surface, the place was such a Soddom and Gommorah style cesspit! The characterisation and exageration work, however; the dialogue is gritty and very rarely feels forced even though the wisecracks are up there with David Mamet's best. This is definitely a success and even though, as far as I am aware this is Mailer's only thriller it doesn't feel like he is indulging himself with a vanity project (such as Martin Amis's attempted police thriller "Night Train").
Great book and although written in a very elaborate style for the genre, a compulsive read.
Sex and severed heads at the seaside December 3, 1998
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
This is the first Norman Mailer I've read, and I am impressed. You can almost smell the sea of Mailer's ghostly, winter Provincetown. I became caught up in the protagonist's horrible situation, so that when I occasionally had to put the book down, I was that man. This might well not be one of Mailer's best reads, but if you like a scary, dirty, human read, then this is it.
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