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Bezig met laden... I Should Have Stayed Home (1938)door Horace McCoy
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. McCoy wrote in the 1930s in a contemporary setting. This story revolves around Ralph, a small-town hick who’s come to Hollywood to break into pictures, and his roommate Mona who is equally desperate to become a star. McCoy didn’t sugar-coat the reality of Hollywood life or the effects of the Depression on Americans of all stripes. I’m not sure who approved the cover of this re-issue but I think it’s very much all wrong. While I was reading this, I was thinking it felt like "The Postman Always Rings Twice" meets "They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?", so I wasn’t too surprised to learn that McCoy did indeed write the latter. Read this if: you’d like a look at old-time Tinsel Town, stripped of its tinsel. 4 stars McCoy's story of a naive Georgia boy trying to make it in Hollywood has that same desperate 1930s tone that pervades his other work, along with such books as Thieves Like Us and You Play the Black and the Red Comes Up. It is much more consistent in tone, and therefore more successful, than McCoy's No Pockets in a Shroud, but it still lacks the impact and perfection of They Shoot Horses, Don't They? It is well worth picking up, however, for its portrayal of a believable set of characters, each of whom deals with the emptiness of Hollywood in his or her own way. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Is opgenomen inClub del misterio. Volumen I: Prólogo de J. J. BORGES. "El cuento policial, IX" . Dashiell HAMMETT: "Cosecha roja". Arthur CONAN DOYLE: "Las aventuras de Shrlock Holmes". Hellery QUEEN: "Cara a cara". Raymond CHANDLER: "El sueño eterno". Patricia IHGSMITH: Erle STANLEY GARDNER: "El cuchillo". "El caso del juguete mortífero". James HADLEY CHASE: "Impulso creador". "El secuestro de Miss Blandish". Nicholas BLAKE: "La bestia debe morir". Volumen 2: Prólogo de R. CHANDLER: " El simpl door AA.VV (indirect)
McCoy's classic, slyly funny novel about a pair of young actors trying to make it in a pitiless Hollywood For aspiring actor Ralph Carston, all roads lead to Hollywood--but none seem to be direct or easy. The handsome Georgia native immediately finds that his Southern accent is one strike against him, though he manages to eke out a living as an extra alongside his pretty roommate Mona Matthews. But the big break for these two young hopefuls finally arrives in a curious way. When their third roommate is sentenced to three years in prison for shoplifting, Mona's emotional courtroom outburst wins her and Ralph notoriety--and entrée into new social circles. Ralph becomes the self-loathing plaything of Ethel Smithers, a wealthy widow who promises much but has no interest in delivering. Mona faces romantic nightmares of her own while also being blacklisted for joining a union. A precursor to Sunset Boulevard, and reminiscent of Nathanael West, I Should Have Stayed Home is a fantastically hardboiled portrait of Tinseltown in the thirties. This ebook features an extended biography of Horace McCoy. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.52Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1900-1944LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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Published in 1938 and more graphic than The Day of the Locust, this is a fast-paced noir of what some people will do to be famous. Change the names of the popular nightclubs in the story and it's barely aged. ( )