They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
Horace McCoy
122 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 185242401X
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Language: English
Publish: June 1, 1995
AmericanClassicsCrimeDramaFictionHistorical FictionLiteratureMysteryNoirNovels
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