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  1. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? 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 .

  2. 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 because they ...

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  4. Horace McCoy. 3.86. 10,048 ratings1,027 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 ...

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  5. Sep 27, 2017 · Weeks into the dance marathon that Gloria (Jane Fonda), Robbert (Michael Sarrazin), her accidental partner, and Alice (Susannah York) have found themselves trapped by their own volition in, they are drained, ready to collapse, only the hope of $1500 worth of prize money keeping them dead on their feet. So often, Gloria opines to Robert that she ...

  6. Apr 23, 2011 · The brutality of the story is offset by the poetic beauty and precision of McCoy's narrative as it hones in on the thoughts and aspirations of its outsider characters, their troubled voices ...

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