Tim Madden, an unsuccessful writer with a penchant for nicotine, alcohol and blondes with money, struggles towards consciousness twenty-four days and nights after his wife has left him. He has a bad case of alcohol amnesia, a fresh and throbbing tattoo and a car drenched in blood. Just to make his hangover complete, Provincetown's Chief of Police would like a quiet word...
So begins Madden's disquieting journey into the dark recesses of America's psyche.
TOUGH GUYS DON'T DANCE is Norman Mailer at his tough, raw and uncompromising best. And Madden's tormented efforts to reconstruct the missing hours of a terrible evening turn, inevitably into fragments of the American Nightmare.
- ISBN10 0394541294
- ISBN13 9780394541297
- Publish Date 12 August 1984 (first published 12 July 1984)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 March 2021
- Imprint Random House (NY)
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 240
- Language English