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Nightmare Alley

By Gresham, William Lindsay

Nightmare Alley Classics

Nightmare Alley

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OUT NOW IN CINEMAS AND NOMINATED FOR FOUR OSCARS A cool, cruel, rediscovered classic of American noir adapted for cinemas by Guillermo del Toro, starring Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara 'Read and shudder. And relish' Guardian 'A creepy, all-too-harrowing masterpiece' Washington Post Stanton Carlisle, employed as a carny at a travelling circus watches their freak-show geek - an abject alcoholic, the object of the voyeuristic crowd's gleeful disgust and derision - and 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. Unlike the tragic figure he sees before him, Stan is young, clever and ambitious and quick to learn from the other carnival acts. Initially teaming up with a beautiful but vulnerable woman as part of a double act in which he mesmerises her, Stan soon leaves his circus days behind him, becoming a successful spiritualist who exploits the weak and the wealthy. But even the very best con-men can meet their match.... With a new introduction from James Smythe, Nightmare Alley is a forgotten classic of Depression-era America: a brilliant, horrifying, compulsive journey into the true darkness of the human mind.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
400
Release Date:
2021-12-09
Publication Date:
2021-12-09
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1526640864
ISBN13:
9781526640864
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
326 g
Height:
126 cm
Width:
197 cm
Thickness:
27 cm
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