<![CDATA[Tough Guys Don't Dance: A Novel]]>

false <![CDATA[Tough Guys Don't Dance: A Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166503752m/12469.jpg 12469 15 A dark, brilliant 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 constellation of character as Madden tries to reconstruct the missing hours of a terrible evening. In the course of this in-quiry a bizarre and vividly etched gallery of characters reappears to him as in a dream—ex-prizefighters, sexual junkies, mediums, former cons, a police chief, a world-weary former girl friend, and Mad-den’s father, old now but still a Herculean figure, a practitioner of the sternest backroom ethics. Tough Guys Don’t Dance represents Mailer at the peak of his powers with a stunningly conceived novel that soon transcends its origins as a mystery to become a relentless search into the recesses and buried virtues of the modern American male. Rarely, as many readers will discern, have the paradoxes of machismo and homosexuality been so well explored. 2801595 1984 Tough Guys Don't Dance: A Novel total:346|5:56|4:101|3:126|2:51|1:12| 346 1176 462 31 5 0 false false Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 1985 Tue Dec 16 13:46:06 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 16 13:57:55 -0800 2008 Harlot's Ghost, a novel that oscillates wildly...more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Jun 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 13 17:08:46 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 14:59:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu May 31 11:34:42 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 04 11:37:56 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Thu Apr 16 07:29:22 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 07:32:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Apr 30 08:16:54 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 30 08:22:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Apr 29 08:31:57 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 08:38:16 -0700 2009 Lo que es cierto es que este libro es uno de los que marco mi adolescencia y me hizo viajar a Provincetown tan diafanamen...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Mar 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 16 20:08:04 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 16 20:08:04 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 11 10:25:12 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 11 11:03:20 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 31 12:00:55 -0700 2008 Wed Nov 26 19:06:06 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Sep 07 21:36:12 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 21:38:04 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Sat Oct 24 23:49:14 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 23:49:26 -0700 2009 ]]> 4 0 false false Tue Dec 23 07:56:56 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 23 07:58:00 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1986 Tue Mar 11 06:54:42 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 11 07:00:17 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Oct 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 24 06:22:32 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 29 07:12:57 -0700 2008 1 0 false false Tue Sep 04 16:37:51 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 04 16:37:51 -0700 2007 2 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 05 08:31:02 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 05 08:33:05 -0800 2007 2 0 false false Mon Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Fri Feb 01 14:16:11 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 01 14:16:54 -0800 2008 1 0 false false Sat Jul 07 00:03:22 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 07 00:03:22 -0700 2007 2 0 false false Mon Sep 08 18:12:07 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 08 18:16:52 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Tue Jul 24 22:45:47 -0700 2007 Sun May 25 04:01:59 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=12469