Books Tell You Why, Inc.

An unblemished first Printing of the First Random House Edition in a like dust-jacket.

Norman Mailer's Tough Guys Don't Dance tells the story of eighteen-year-old Billy Bathgate, who is expelled from his Brooklyn public school for fighting and ends up in the juvenile detention center. Mailer's descriptive writing vividly captures the sights, smells, and sounds of the detention center, as well as the characters' thoughts and emotions.; 8vo; 229 pages.