Document Type

Book

Publication Date

1982

Abstract

Upon returning from Paris in 1946, Vogue editor Allene Talmey observed: “Everyone in the knowledgeable world talks about American writers, about a curious trinity: Hemingway, Faulkner, and McCoy” ("Paris Quick Notes/About Sartre, Gide, Cocteau, Politics,/The Theatre, and Inflation," Vogue, January 15, 1947, p. 92). Although he has long had an enthusiastic following overseas, the California novelist Horace McCoy (1897-1955) is virtually unknown in the United States. Here, all five of his novels are out of print and the published scholarship on those novels is minimal. Nevertheless, McCoy was a serious artist who helped extend the boundaries of the indigenously American genre of hard-boiled or tough-guy fiction. Moreover, his life and work demonstrate the paradoxical significance of the West within our national mythology.

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