by Horace McCoy · Punto De Lectura · tapa dura · ISBN 9788466368797
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«¿Acaso no matan a los caballos?» is a crime novel by Horace McCoy, published by Punto De Lectura in hardback (160 pages, in Spanish).
California, 1932. In the midst of the Great Depression, Gloria and Robert enter a dance marathon: the contest offers seven meals a day, accommodation, brief rests and the possibility of a cash prize. What begins as a desperate means of survival ends in tragedy.
Work originally published in 1935 as «They Shoot Horses, Don't They?»; part of the Zona Negra collection from Punto De Lectura.
Recommended for crime novel readers interested in Great Depression America and classics with a social background.
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.
