About the book: 2004 / The novels presented in this edition "They shoot driven horses, don't they?" and “I wish I had stayed home” by Horace McCoy are the pinnacle of the American writer’s work. Cruelly and coldly, McCoy tells of the broken destinies of young boys and girls, attracted by the glitz and glory of Hollywood and rejected by an indifferent city, and if we resort to generalization, he tells of the fate of an entire generation and each person, of his loneliness and dreams, doomed to eternal “non-fulfillment.” ". Translation from English by O. Kubatko.