by Horace McCoy · Punto De Lectura · tapa dura · ISBN 9788466317238
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«¿Acaso no matan a los caballos?» is the hardback crime novel by American writer Horace McCoy, published by Punto de Lectura (412 pages, in Spanish).
During the Great Depression, a group of dancers takes part in a dance marathon hoping to win a cash prize. Physical endurance becomes a competition that exposes the exhaustion, exploitation, and desperation of the characters.
The novel was originally published in 1935 under the title «They Shoot Horses, Don't They?»; this edition dates from 2005.
For readers of twentieth-century American classics and stories with a social backdrop.
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.
