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"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. But, the underside of that Craze was filled with a competition and violence unknown to most ballrooms. [author's] classic American story captures that dark side in this powerful novel."--Back cover.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and bleak.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Horace McCoy
- First published
- October 1, 1977
- Pages
- 224
- Publisher
- Planeta, Colección Bestsellers Serie Negra, nº 9,, Avon Books, GALLIMARD
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- heb, Spanish, French, English
- ISBN
- 9781788165907
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Horace Stanley McCoy was an American writer whose mostly hard-boiled stories took place during the Great Depression.
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