They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781788165907
ISBN-10: 178816590X
Pagini: 144
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.12 kg
Ediția:Main - Classic Edition
Editura: Profile
Colecția Serpent's Tail
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 178816590X
Pagini: 144
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.12 kg
Ediția:Main - Classic Edition
Editura: Profile
Colecția Serpent's Tail
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
Horace McCoy was born near Nashville, Tennessee in 1897. During his lifetime he travelled all over the US as a salesman and taxi-driver, and his varied career included reporting and sports editing, acting as bodyguard to a politician, doubling for a wrestler, and writing for films and magazines. A founder of the celebrated Dallas Little Theatre, his novels include I Should Have Stayed Home (1938), Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1948), and They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1935), which was made into a film. He died in 1955.
Recenzii
An extraordinary achievement and every bit as shocking and moving today as it must have been for its original readers. The characters are both more, and less, than human, the writing is tersely perfect, and the ending almost unbearably moving.
The first existentialist novel to have appeared in America
A classic novel about hardscrabble survival in 1930s Depression-era America
A heartbreaking existentialist fable about a gruelling marathon dance contest [that] assumes the weight of Greek tragedy ... a masterpiece.
Sordid, pathetic, senselessly exciting ... has the immediacy and the significance of a nerve-shattering explosion
Were it not in its physical details so carefully documented, it would be lurid beyond itself
Language is not minced in this short novel which presents life in its most brutal aspect
A brilliant, bitter, wonderful portrait of mother and daughter, artist and lover
Horace McCoy shoots words like bullets
A spare, bleak parable about American life, which McCoy pictured as a Los Angeles dance marathon in the early thirties ... full of the kind of apocalyptic detail that both he and Nathanael West saw in life as lived on the Hollywood fringe
Captures the survivalist barbarity in this bizarre convention, and becomes a metaphor for life itself: the last couple on their feet gets the prize
I was moved, then shaken by the beauty and genius of Horace McCoy's metaphor
It's the unanswerable nature of the whydunnit that ensures the book's durability
Takes the reader into one of America's darkest corners ... The story has resonance for contemporary America and the current craze for reality television. How far are we from staging a dance marathon for television?
This almost sadistically frank pulp fiction from 1935 will cure anyone of the delusion that earlier generations didn't know the score. With murder, incest, abortion, and the like generously added to a plot about people entertaining themselves by watching the misery of others, it's like one of these eliminationist "reality" television shows (Survivor, Big Brother, etc.) as conceived by the creative team of Thomas Hobbes and Charles Darwin. These lives are indeed nasty, brutish, and short. It doesn't make for a pretty story, but you have to admire the zeal and energy with which Horace McCoy drives his point home
A sharply-honed novella... Brilliant
America's first existential novel
And finally, showing the modern writers how it's done... the 1930s existentialist noir classic... it's a breathtaking piece of storytelling that is still thrillingly relevant today.
The brutality of the story is offset by the poetic beauty and precision of the narrative... In our world of fleeting reality TV stardom, this stark, urgent novel feels more timely than ever.
The first existentialist novel to have appeared in America
A classic novel about hardscrabble survival in 1930s Depression-era America
A heartbreaking existentialist fable about a gruelling marathon dance contest [that] assumes the weight of Greek tragedy ... a masterpiece.
Sordid, pathetic, senselessly exciting ... has the immediacy and the significance of a nerve-shattering explosion
Were it not in its physical details so carefully documented, it would be lurid beyond itself
Language is not minced in this short novel which presents life in its most brutal aspect
A brilliant, bitter, wonderful portrait of mother and daughter, artist and lover
Horace McCoy shoots words like bullets
A spare, bleak parable about American life, which McCoy pictured as a Los Angeles dance marathon in the early thirties ... full of the kind of apocalyptic detail that both he and Nathanael West saw in life as lived on the Hollywood fringe
Captures the survivalist barbarity in this bizarre convention, and becomes a metaphor for life itself: the last couple on their feet gets the prize
I was moved, then shaken by the beauty and genius of Horace McCoy's metaphor
It's the unanswerable nature of the whydunnit that ensures the book's durability
Takes the reader into one of America's darkest corners ... The story has resonance for contemporary America and the current craze for reality television. How far are we from staging a dance marathon for television?
This almost sadistically frank pulp fiction from 1935 will cure anyone of the delusion that earlier generations didn't know the score. With murder, incest, abortion, and the like generously added to a plot about people entertaining themselves by watching the misery of others, it's like one of these eliminationist "reality" television shows (Survivor, Big Brother, etc.) as conceived by the creative team of Thomas Hobbes and Charles Darwin. These lives are indeed nasty, brutish, and short. It doesn't make for a pretty story, but you have to admire the zeal and energy with which Horace McCoy drives his point home
A sharply-honed novella... Brilliant
America's first existential novel
And finally, showing the modern writers how it's done... the 1930s existentialist noir classic... it's a breathtaking piece of storytelling that is still thrillingly relevant today.
The brutality of the story is offset by the poetic beauty and precision of the narrative... In our world of fleeting reality TV stardom, this stark, urgent novel feels more timely than ever.
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The Depression of the 1930s led people to desperate measures to survive. The marathon dance craze, which flourished at that time seemed a simple way for people to earn extra money dancing the hours away for cash, for weeks at a time. But the underside of that craze was filled with a competition and violence unknown to most ballrooms. A lurid tale of dancing and desperation: Horace McCoy's classic American novel captures the dark side of the 1930s.
The Depression of the 1930s led people to desperate measures to survive. The marathon dance craze, which flourished at that time seemed a simple way for people to earn extra money dancing the hours away for cash, for weeks at a time. But the underside of that craze was filled with a competition and violence unknown to most ballrooms. A lurid tale of dancing and desperation: Horace McCoy's classic American novel captures the dark side of the 1930s.