by Horace McCoy · Gallimard · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070369621
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«On Achève Bien Les Chevaux» is the crime novel by Horace McCoy, published by Gallimard in paperback (224 pages, in French).
A man faces the death penalty for the death of Gloria Bettie; he insists he acted out of compassion and at her request. The narrative goes back to the dance marathon where they met and describes the harshness of those endurance contests, with characters struggling to survive during the Great Depression.
French translation of the original novel They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1935), published in Gallimard's Folio collection with complete text.
The French edition is suitable for fans of crime fiction and 20th-century American classics.
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.
