Tough Guys Dont Dance, Norman Mailer
Tough Guys Dont Dance, Norman Mailer
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Tough Guys Don't Dance

Author: Norman Mailer

Narrator: MacLeod Andrews

Unabridged: 8 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Published: 12/20/2016

Synopsis

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.

About Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer was born in 1923 in Long Branch, New Jersey, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. In 1955, he was one of the co-founders of The Village Voice. He is the author of more than thirty books, including The Naked and the Dead; The Armies of the Night, for which he won a National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize; The Executioner's Song, for which he won his second Pulitzer Prize; Harlot's Ghost; Oswald's Tale; and The Gospel According to the Son. He lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts, with his wife, the novelist Norris Church Mailer.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Vit on August 25, 2021

Tough Guys Don't Dance is an attempt at post-noir. It is bloody. It is gory without glory. It reads like a parody. Probably it is one. Even if inadvertently… I could merely ponder the waves. The waves outside the lounge-room window on this chill November night had become equal in some manner to the w......more

Goodreads review by Scott on February 26, 2020

I'm a huge Norman Mailer fan. (As an aside, let me just divulge something here. I have no idea, really, why I have a huge affinity for certain writers that are notoriously misogynistic in nature: Phillip Roth, John Updike, Mailer, to name a few. I don't consider myself a misogynist. I'm actually pre......more

Goodreads review by Thomas on September 20, 2015

Dark, violent and really really good! One of my most read books (and the movie, sadly underrated, is one of my most seen as well). Read the book first! Also, I read it most in its translated to Swedish form and while there is nothing wrong with the translation, the original text really surpasses tha......more

Goodreads review by Juan on July 12, 2016

8 días y 323 páginas después. Lo primero que tengo que decir es que es una pésima edición. Probablemente una de las peores que haya leído, le hacen falta montones de espacios para poder comprender todo; tal vez no haya sido la edición, sino la forma tan "abultada" de escribir del autor. Esta novela i......more

Goodreads review by Wally on June 04, 2007

Is this where Mailer asks the question, why do gay men congregate in cities with giant phallic monuments? I can't remember.......more

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