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They Shoot Horses, Don't They? is a novel written by Horace McCoy and first published in 1935. The story mainly concerns a dance marathon during the Great Depression . It was adapted into Sydney Pollack 's 1969 film of the same name .
- Horace McCoy
- 1935
Sep 6, 2023 · Robert Syverten is the narrator. He tells what led up to his murder of Gloria Beatty and his eventual death sentence. He met her when he thought her waving for a bus was an attempt to meet him....
Sep 6, 2023 · Last Updated September 6, 2023. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? was written in 1935, in the depths of the Great Depression. During the Great Depression, dance marathons were a craze...
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They Shoot Horses, Don't They? is a novel written by Horace McCoy and first published in 1935. It was adapted into Sydney Pollack's 1969 film of the same name. The story mainly concerns a dance marathon during the Great Depression.
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S urvival is all in the harsh world evoked in Horace McCoy's slim yet thematically weighty 1935 novel set in America's Great Depression. How far a human being will go to stay alive is the...
Sep 6, 2023 · The story They Shoot Horses, Don't They? is a somber look at desperation and depression in an era of uncertainty and want. Robert Syverten, the protagonist of the novel, is a young man...
A young boy by the name of Robert sees his hillbilly father shoot a horse with a broken leg to put it out of its misery. Years later, it's the Great Depression, the 1930's. Robert dreamed of being a great filmmaker but is now almost broke.
