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Loading... They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Serpent's Tail Classics) (original 1935; edition 2011)by Horace McCoy
Work InformationThey Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy (1935)
![]() 1,001 BYMRBYD Concensus (582) 1930s (190) » 5 more No current Talk conversations about this book. ![]() For the past several years I've chosen books by author or genre instead of plot. I never read the publishers synopsis before hand, so I go in with a clean slate, wanting to be surprised. Well, surprised I certainly was with this one. I was familiar with the title, and I knew a film was made based on the book, but that is as far as it went. What I found was a very tightly woven tale of the human condition at its extremes. I think this one will stay with me for a long time. Short and quick noir novella. Doesn't have all the drama with detectives and investigations blah blah. It has a smooth and neat flow to the narrative .. everything points towards answering a single question : why did he kill her? A man meets a girl .. both hard boiled for money .. they enroll into a dance marathon .. everything goes well for a few days until it all ends in a massive accident and murder. So why did he kill her? Isn't she someone he could have fallen in love with? Interesting Read! A couple meet by accident and enter a dance marathon on the pier in Santa Monica. The woman is a confirmed pessimist and constantly talks about wanting to die. The marathon goes on for over a month and only 20 couples are left out of 80, and there's plenty of trouble going on amid the drama of collapsed dancers and disqualified couples. A quick read. no reviews | add a review
Belongs to Publisher SeriesEdiciones de bolsillo (297) El País. Serie negra (28) Gallimard, Folio (466) Gyldendals Tranebøger (214) — 6 more Is contained inAmerican Noir: 11 Classic Crime Novels of the 1930s, 40s, & 50s (Library of America) by Robert Polito (indirect) Club del misterio. Volumen I: Prólogo de J. J. BORGES. "El cuento policial, IX" . Dashiell HAMMETT: "Cosecha roja". Arthur CONAN DOYLE: "Las aventuras de Shrlock Holmes". Hellery QUEEN: "Cara a cara". Raymond CHANDLER: "El sueño eterno". Patricia IHGSMITH: Erle STANLEY GARDNER: "El cuchillo". "El caso del juguete mortífero". James HADLEY CHASE: "Impulso creador". "El secuestro de Miss Blandish". Nicholas BLAKE: "La bestia debe morir". Volumen 2: Prólogo de R. CHANDLER: " El simpl by AA.VV. (indirect) Has the adaptation
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During the Depression, Gloria and Robert enter a dance marathon in return for three square meals a day and a chance at winning the big-money prize. Under the intense scrutiny of the media, corporate sponsors and obsessive fans, the competing couples are put through a series of gruelling and humiliating feats of endurance, until they begin to fight among themselves and betray each other. As days and weeks go by, the tension reaches boiling point, and this pitch-black tale of desire and desperation heads towards a violent conclusion. No library descriptions found. |
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