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Horace Stanley McCoy (April 14, 1897 – December 15, 1955) was an American writer whose mostly hardboiled stories took place during the Great Depression. His best-known novel is They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1935), which was made into a movie of the same name in 1969, fourteen years after McCoy's death.
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.
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Feb 27, 2015 · A review of Horace McCoy's debut novel, a hardboiled fairytale about a dance marathon in the Depression, and its cultural impact. The novel explores the themes of failure, desperation, and fatalism with a brutal realism and a cult following.
May 17, 2011 · Horace Stanley McCoy (1897–1955) was an American novelist whose gritty, hardboiled novels documented the hardships Americans faced during the Depression and postwar 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.
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Showing 26 distinct works. sort by. * Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more books, click here . Horace McCoy has 26 books on Goodreads with 29453 ratings. Horace McCoy’s most popular book is They Shoot Horses, Don't They?.
Horace McCoy was born on 14 April 1897 in Pegram, Tennessee, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Speed Wings (1934), The Lusty Men (1952) and Dangerous Mission (1954). He died on 16 December 1955 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.
Horace McCoy. 3.86. 10,118 ratings1,037 reviews. 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."
