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Author | : Robert L. Gale |
Publisher | : Author House |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2013-01-21 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1477259716 |
Download Characters and Plots in the Novels of Horace Mccoy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Tennessee-born Horace McCoy joined the American Air Service in WWI, was wounded flying over France, became a reporter-actor in Dallas. In Hollywood, he was popular as a handsome actor, then toiled as a prolific movie-script writer. McCoy burst into fame with his first novel, They Shoot Horses, Dont They?, about Depression-era marathon dancers. His No Pockets in a Shroud features a social climber bribed to have his marriage annulled by the brides rich father, then establishing a radical magazine. I Should Have Stayed Home exposes Hollywood moguls and rich old women exploiting would-be actors and actresses. Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye features warfare between a professional criminal and corrupt law-enforcement agents. When made into a movie it starred Jimmy Cagney. Additional films were based on McCoys fiction. McCoy visited England and France where translations of his works were admired by existentialists. Scalpel, his best-seller, features Tom Owen, a successful WWII military surgeon at odds with his superiors, including General Patton. Owen returns to his Western Pennsylvania roots to investigate his brothers death, is drawn into high-society--temporarily? Well-educated Owen perhaps resembles what McCoy aspired to be. But love of cars, wine, travel, and the high life clipped his wings. He left Corruption City, a sixth novel, in fragmentary form--completed by a ghost writer and blasting yet another set of unclean cops and thieving politicians. McCoys popularity in Europe may be better than in America, a land he loved and wished were cleaner. This book begins with a chronology of major events in the life of Horace McCoy (1897-1955), and then in one alphabetized sequence synopsizes the plots of his six novels and identifies each of their 494 characters--often with critical comments by publishing scholars, including Gale. It concludes with a select bibliography showing the range of scholarship on McCoy, then an index.
Author | : Horace McCoy |
Publisher | : Profile Books |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2011-05-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1847653103 |
Download They Shoot Horses, Don't They? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Lee Server |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1438109121 |
Download Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Provides an introduction to American pulp fiction during the twentieth century with brief author biographies and lists of their works.
Author | : Sacvan Bercovitch |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 652 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521497312 |
Download The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 6, Prose Writing, 1910-1950 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Volume 6 of The Cambridge History of American Literature explores the emergence and flowering of modernism in the United States. David Minter provides a cultural history of the American novel from the 'lyric years' to World War I, through post-World War I disillusionment, to the consolidation of the Left in response to the mire of the Great Depression. Rafia Zafar tells the story of the Harlem Renaissance, detailing the artistic accomplishments of such diverse figures as Zora Neal Hurston, W. E. B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Nella Larsen, and Richard Wright. Werner Sollors examines canonical texts as well as popular magazines and hitherto unknown immigrant writing from the period. Taken together these narratives cover the entire range of literary prose written in the first half of the twentieth century, offering a model of literary history for our times, focusing as they do on the intricate interplay between text and context.
Author | : Lee Horsley |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2016-01-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230280757 |
Download The Noir Thriller Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
What is literary noir? How do British and American noir thrillers relate to their historical contexts? In considering such questions, this study ranges over hundreds of novels, analysing the politics and poetics of noir from the hard-boiled fiction of Hammett, Chandler and Cain to the exciting diversity of nineties thrillers, with sections on the tough investigators, gangsters and victims of the Depression years: the first-person killers, femmes fatales and black protagonists of mid-century; the game-players, voyeurs and consumers of contemporary thrillers and future noir.
Author | : NA NA |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 1585 |
Release | : 2015-12-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1349813664 |
Download Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Horace McCoy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 574 |
Release | : 1983 |
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ISBN | : 9780946391141 |
Download They Shoot Horses, Don't They ; Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye ; No Pockets in a Shroud ; I Should Have Stayed Home Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : David L. Minter |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521467490 |
Download A Cultural History of the American Novel, 1890-1940 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book interweaves a wide selection of the novels of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with a series of cultural events ranging from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show to the "Southern Renaissance" of the 1930s.
Author | : Horace McCoy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 600 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : American literature |
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Download They Shoot Horses, Don't They ; Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye ; No Pockets in a Shroud ; I Should Have Stayed Home Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Andre Spicer |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 662 |
Release | : 2013-06-27 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1118523717 |
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An authoritative companion that offers a wide-ranging thematic survey of this enduringly popular cultural form and includes scholarship from both established and emerging scholars as well as analysis of film noir's influence on other media including television and graphic novels. Covers a wealth of new approaches to film noir and neo-noir that explore issues ranging from conceptualization to cross-media influences Features chapters exploring the wider ‘noir mediascape’ of television, graphic novels and radio Reflects the historical and geographical reach of film noir, from the 1920s to the present and in a variety of national cinemas Includes contributions from both established and emerging scholars