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The Great Depression led people to take 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 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.
‘A heart-breaking existentialist fable about a gruelling marathon dance contest [that] assumes the weight of Greek tragedy . . . a masterpiece. ’ Independent
I’ll Be Gloria
The big news of 1966 was that Horace McCoy’s classic American crime thriller They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? was no longer my number one true love. It was Shelagh Spaul.
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