«This is Hollywood, buddy. Any morality stays outside the gates—it is категорically forbidden to enter the city.»
The novel «I Should Have Stayed Home» by Horace McCoy is the pinnacle of the American writer’s work, whose name thundered after the wide release of Sydney Pollack’s film «They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?» starring Jane Fonda.
Hard and cold-blooded, McCoy tells of the broken destinies of young men and women attracted by the glitter and glory of Hollywood and rejected by the indifferent city; and, more broadly, he tells of the fate of an entire generation and, wider still, of every person—their loneliness and dreams doomed to eternal nonfulfillment.