They Shoot Horses Don't They - Brossura

McCoy, Horace

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ISBN 10: 185242401X ISBN 13: 9781852424015

Casa editrice: Serpents Tail, 1995

Riassunto

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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Recensione:

?Sordid, pathetic, senselessly exciting...has the immediacy - and the significance - of a nerve-shattering explosion? New Republic ?Were it not in its physical details so carefully documented, it would be lurid beyond itself? Nation ?Language is not minced in this short novel which presents life in its most brutal aspect? Saturday Review of Literature

L'autore:

Horace McCoy was born near Nashville, Tennessee in 1897. During his lifetime he travelled all over the US as a salesman and taxi-driver, and 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 (1938), Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1948), and They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1935), which was made into a film. He died in 1955.

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• Editore: Serpents Tail
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 185242401X
• ISBN 13: 9781852424015
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 128