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Tough Guys Don't Dance (Hardcover)

by Norman Mailer (Author)
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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  • Hardcover: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Random House; Reissue edition (Sep 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0375508740
  • ISBN-13: 978-0375508745
  • Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 16.1 x 2.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,368,644 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Sex and severed heads at the seaside, 3 Dec 1998
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This review is from: Tough Guys Don't Dance (Paperback)
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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4.0 out of 5 stars Tough, hard-boiled, brilliance, 22 Mar 2007
By Caterkiller (Darlington, UK) - See all my reviews
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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Another stunning novel by Norman.., 1 Oct 2008
By Nj Peel "nickpeel16" (london, uk) - See all my reviews
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More brutality and vicious writing from Norman. His obsession with the "metaphysical" gets more of a free-reign on this one but it still hits hard, hard.
Some chapters knocked me flat. The man must have lived some life to get words like this in his head.
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