by Horace McCoy · El País · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496246898
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«¿Acaso no matan a los caballos?» is the crime novel by Horace McCoy, published by El País in paperback (140 pages, in Spanish).
In 1932 California, during the Great Depression, penniless young people, the unemployed and aspiring actors sign up for a dance marathon that offers meals and lodging in exchange for staying on their feet. What begins as a desperate way to earn a living becomes an endurance test that pushes them to the limit. The novel inspired the movie «Danzad, danzad, malditos».
Number 28 in the Serie Negra collection from El País. Translated from English by José Rovira Sánchez, its original title is «They Shoot Horses, Don't They?».
A cult work for French existentialism, it will appeal to crime fiction readers and those seeking a social narrative about the 1930s.
Horace Stanley McCoy 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.
