Tough Guys Dont Dance

by Mailer, Norman

In Norman Mailer's Tough Guys Don't Dance, we meet a very unlucky guy named Tim Madden.  One morning, Tim rolls out of bed with a terrible hangover, a new tattoo with his ex-girlfriend's name, blood all over his Porsche, and to top it off, two severed heads in his secret stash of marijuana in the woods.

Now Tim is in trouble. He has to save himself from murderous attention, as well as figure out who put him in this situation!

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Random House published a First Edition, First Printing in New York, 1984. 

The Franklin Library published a First Edition, Limited Edition in PA, 1984. The edition is bound in full leather with decorative gilt, and marble end papers.

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Cannon Films published a First Edition Thus Screenplay in Los Angeles, 1986. 

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Tough Guys Don’t Dance - 1st Edition/1st Printing

by Mailer, Norman

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1984
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Tough Guys Don't Dance

by Norman Mailer

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1984
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1984
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1984
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