by Horace McCoy · Bruguera · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788402053367
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«Luces de Hollywood» is a crime novel by Horace McCoy, published by Bruguera in paperback (154 pages, in Spanish).
A crime novel set in Hollywood, where hundreds of extras and aspiring actors wait for the lucky break that will bring them fame. The story shows the violence the system exerts on the individual and the bitterest face of the film industry, made of ambition, desperation and broken dreams.
Part of the Novela Negra collection (No. 13) from Libro Amigo. Original title: I Should Have Stayed Home (1938). Translated by Pilar Giralt.
For readers of classic crime fiction and those interested in golden-age Hollywood and its myths.
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.
