Nightmare Alley
of William Lindsay Gresham, Nick Tosches (Introduction)
Description
Nightmare Alley begins with an extraordinary description of a freak-show geekâalcoholic and abject and the object of the voyeuristic crowdâs gleeful disgust and derisionâgoing 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. Thereâs 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 heâs 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 Stanâs for the taking. William Lindsay Greshamâs novel is a dark jewel, a classic American tale about the varieties of deception and self-deception and the dream of redemptionâa dream that is only a nightmare in disguise.
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 275 pages
- Publisher NYRB Classics
- Publication Date April 6th 2010
- First Publication 11/06/46
- Language English
- ISBN 9781590173480
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
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