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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?
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 impact on American literature. The novel explores the themes of failure, fatalism, and transgression through the characters of Gloria and Robert, who become obsessed with each other and the prize money.
May 17, 2011 · Horace McCoy, author of the 1935 novel ‘They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?’, had been a bouncer at one of those marathons so he was writing from personal experience. He saw the dance marathons as a perfect metaphor for the futility of existence and Gloria Beatty is the perfect antiheroine for such a bleak vision.
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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.
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- April 14, 1897
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.
Horace McCoy was an American author best known for his hard-boiled and noir novels set during the Great Depression.
