They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy

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Book name:	They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (2024)
Category:	Fiction
Author:	Horace McCoy
Pages:	122 pages
ISBN13:	185242401X
ISBN:	185242401X
Language:	English
Publication data:	June 1, 1995, 7 a.m.

The marathon dance craze flourished during the 1930s, but the underside was a competition and violence unknown to most ballrooms—a dark side that Horace McCoy's classic American novel powerfully captures.

"Were it not in its physical details so carefully documented, it would be lurid beyond itself." —Nation

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Horace McCoy

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Horace Stanley McCoy (1897–1955) was an American novelist whose gritty, hardboiled novels documented the hardships Americans faced during the Depression and post-war periods. McCoy grew up in Tennessee and Texas; after serving in the air force during World War I, he worked as a journalist, film actor, and screenplay writer, and is author of five novels including They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1935) and the noir classic Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1948). Though underappreciated in his own time, McCo… Read more