I Should Have Stayed Home, (Paperback)

from mstrust

Georgia farm boy Ralph Carston did a bit a local playhouse acting before heading to Hollywood to become a star. He and roommate Mona have worked hard to get noticed, but it isn't until Mona cusses out a judge in court that she gets any attention, and that's quickly diverted to handsome Ralph once...

from datrappert

McCoy's story of a naive Georgia boy trying to make it in Hollywood has that same desperate 1930s tone that pervades his other work, along with such books as Thieves Like Us and You Play the Black and the Red Comes Up. It is much more consistent in tone, and therefore more successful, than McCoy'...

from ParadisePorch

McCoy wrote in the 1930s in a contemporary setting. This story revolves around Ralph, a small-town hick who's come to Hollywood to break into pictures, and his roommate Mona who is equally desperate to become a star. McCoy didn't sugar-coat the reality of Hollywood life or the effects of the Depr...

from pamelad

Bleak, short novel about Hollywood. McCoy's Hollywood is a cynical, sordid place that destroys the lives of the naive, young men and women who are drawn there in the hope of becoming stars. An indictment of the fan magazines that draw them.