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, Don't They?, about Depression-era
marathon dancers. His No Pockets in a Shroud features a social
climber bribed to have his marriage annulled by the bride's 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 McCoy's 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 brother's 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.
McCoy's 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.
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