If I remember correctly, I first read a review of Norman Mailer’s Tough Guys Don’t Dance in the New York Times Sunday Book Review section when the novel was published in 1984. Internet research reveals this had to be the July 29, 1984 piece by Denis Donoghue. The review, overall, is unfavorable, with Donoghue saying, among other things, that what he mostly felt as he read Mailer’s latest “is the wretched inadequacy of the novel to the intention …
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