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Nightmare Alley

Nightmare Alley begins with an extraordinary description of a freak-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 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 Stan's for the taking. At least for now.

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  • "Nightmare Alley begins with an extraordinary description of a freak-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 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 Stan's for the taking. At least for now."@en
  • "Depicts the rise of Stan Carlisle from a carnival mentalist to a successful "spiritualist", preying on the rich and gullible matrons of society to his eventual fall and total disintegration."
  • "Depicts the rise of Stan Carlisle from a carnival mentalist to a successful "spiritualist", preying on the rich and gullible matrons of society to his eventual fall and total disintegration."@en
  • ""Nightmare Alley "begins with an extraordinary description of a freak-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 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 Stan's for the taking. At least for now."
  • ""Nightmare Alley follows the exploits of Stanton Carlisle, a ruthless hustler who learns the tricks of the carny trade and uses them to establish himself as a spiritual guru, preying on the wealthy and the weak. Carlisle's determined rise to power and inevitable plunge into depravity is more than great drama, it is an evisceration of the postwar American dream, told by a writer whose hard-luck life was just as compelling as his character's. Collected in this volume is a sampling of Gresham's other carnival-themed work: essays offering first-hand observations of life beneath the canvas tops. These essays have been long unavailable. An essay by Bret Wood, "William Lindsay Gresham: The Disillusionist," explores the novelist's fascination with carnivals, magic, and spiritualism; and Gresham's lifelong crusade to extract the carefully-guarded secrets that lay hidden within"-- http://www.centipedepress.com/crime/nightmarealley.html (as viewed on 2/22/2014)."

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  • "Comic books, strips, etc"
  • "Powieść kryminalna amerykańska"@pl
  • "Fine books"
  • "Noir fiction"
  • "Specimens"@en
  • "Graphic novels"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Mystery fiction"@en

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  • "Zaułek koszmarów"@pl
  • "Nightmare Alley"@es
  • "Nightmare Alley"
  • "Nightmare Alley"@en
  • "CHARLATAN"
  • "Nightmare alley"
  • "Nightmare alley"@en
  • "El callejón de las almas perdidas"@es
  • "Nightmare Alley. [A novel.]"
  • "Nightmare Alley. [A novel.]"@en
  • "NIGHTMARE ALLEY"
  • "Le charlatan : roman"
  • ""Nightmare alley""@en
  • "Le charlatan"

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