They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

By: Horace McCoy

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Paperback | 3 September 2020

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144 Pages

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1.1 x 12.8 x 19.6

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McCoy's classic novel is a powerful story of ambition, desperation, and determination in 1930s America.

The Great Depression led people to take desperate measures to survive. The marathon dance craze, which flourished at that time, seemed a simple way for people to earn extra money, dancing the hours away for cash, for weeks at a time.

But the underside of that craze was a competition and violence unknown to most ballrooms. A lurid tale of dancing and desperation, Horace McCoy's classic American novel captures the dark side of the 1930s.

About the Author

Horace McCoy was born near Nashville, Tennessee in 1897. His varied career included reporting and sports editing, acting as bodyguard to a politician, doubling for a wrestler and writing for films and magazines. A founder of the celebrated Dallas Little Theatre, his novels include I Should Have Stayed Home and Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye. He died in 1955.

Industry Reviews

An extraordinary achievement and every bit as shocking and moving today as it must have been for its original readers. The characters are both more, and less, than human, the writing is tersely perfect, and the ending almost unbearably moving.
* Guardian *

The first existentialist novel to have appeared in America
Simone de Beauvoir

A classic novel about hardscrabble survival in 1930s Depressionera America
* The Times *

A heartbreaking existentialist fable about a gruelling marathon dance contest [that] assumes the weight of Greek tragedy ... a masterpiece.
* Independent on Sunday *

Sordid, pathetic, senselessly exciting ... has the immediacy and the significance of a nerveshattering explosion
* New Republic *

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

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