The novels presented in this edition “They shoot driven horses, don’t they?” (1935) and “I wish I had stayed home” (1938) by Horace McCoy are the pinnacle of the work of the American writer, whose name became famous after the release of Sydney Pollack’s film “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?” with Jane Fonda in the title role. Tough and cold-blooded McCoy tells about 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 a generalization, it tells about the fate of an entire generation and wider - every person, about his loneliness and dreams, doomed to eternal “non-fulfillment.”