by Horace McCoy · Ediciones Akal · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788446028413
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«Debería haberme quedado en casa» is the crime novel by Horace McCoy, published by Ediciones Akal in paperback (192 pages, in Spanish).
In 1930s Hollywood, Mona and Ralph, two extras, wait by the phone for the call that will change their lives. The city proves cruel and violent to thousands of aspiring actors chasing a dream. A novel with autobiographical elements about the harshness of making it in the movie capital.
This edition belongs to Akal's Básica de Bolsillo collection, where it is number 195, and includes the translation by Ignacio Orozco. The novel was originally published in 1938.
For fans of the crime genre and classic American fiction, with attention to stories about Hollywood.
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.
