Monday, January 3, 2022

Horace McCoy - They Shoot Horses, Don't They?




This is good short novel about dancing marathon and two lonely people in it. One of them, angry girl who always complains and young man with traumas from childhood. In the end after some fuck up at the marathon girl asks young man to shoot her because she didn't want to live anymore. And he did.

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