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9781590173480

Nightmare Alley

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  • ISBN13:

    9781590173480

  • ISBN10:

    1590173481

  • Edition: Revised
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2010-04-06
  • Publisher: NYRB Classics

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Summary

Nightmare Alleybegins with an extraordinary description of a freak-show geek-alcoholic and abject and the object of the voyeuristic crowdrs"s gleeful disgust and derision-going about his work at a county fair. Young Stan Carlisle is working as a carny, and he wonders how a man could fall so low. Therers"s no way in hell, he vows, that anything like that will ever happen to him. And since Stan is clever and ambitious and not without a useful streak of ruthlessness, soon enough hers"s going places. Onstage he plays the mentalist with a cute bimbo (before long his harried wife), then he graduates to full-blown spiritualist, catering to the needs of the rich and gullible in their well-upholstered homes. It looks like the world is Stanrs"s for the taking. William Lindsay Greshamrs"s novel is a dark jewel, a classic American tale about the varieties of deception and self-deception and the dream of redemption-a dream that is only a nightmare in disguise.

Author Biography

William Lindsay Gresham (1909–1962) grew up in Brooklyn, where he became fascinated by the sideshow at Coney Island. After serving as a medic for the Loyalist forces during the Spanish civil war, he edited true-crime pulp magazines. In 1947, Nightmare Alley, his best-known work, was adapted into a film starring Tyrone Power.

Nick Tosches is the author of the novels Cut Numbers and Trinities. His nonfiction books include Hellfire and Dino. His work has appeared in Vanity Fair, for which he is a contributing editor, and in The New York Times and Rolling Stone.

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