Description: Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham (2010 NYRB Softcover Edition)With an Introduction by the great Nick Tosches.Nightmare Alley begins with an extraordinary description of a carnival-show geek—alcoholic and abject and the object of the voyeuristic crowd’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. There’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 he’s going places. Onstage he plays the mentalist with a cute assistant (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 Stan’s for the taking. At least for now.Softcover / NYRB - New York Review Books / 2010 / Very Good Condition
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Brand: NYRB
Color: Multicolor
ISBN: 9781590173480
Book Title: Nightmare Alley
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
Publication Year: 2010
Topic: Psychological, Thrillers / Suspense, Crime, General, Noir
Item Height: 0.8 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 11.2 Oz
Item Length: 8 in
Author: William Lindsay Gresham
Item Width: 5.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
