They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
- ISBN-10
- 1847653103
- ISBN-13
- 9781847653109
- Series
- They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 161
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-05-26
- Publisher
- Profile Books
- Author
- Horace McCoy
Description
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.
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