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Nightmare Alley is a novel by American writer William Lindsay Gresham, published in 1946. It is a study of the depths of how business and its immoral inhabitants—the dark, shadowy world of a second-rate carnival filled with hustlers, scheming grifters, and Machiavellian femmes fatales.
William Lindsay Gresham, Nick Tosches (Introduction) 3.83. 6,494 ratings963 reviews. 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.
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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.
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Apr 6, 2010 · by William Lindsay Gresham, introduction by 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.
- New York Review Books
Apr 6, 2010 · 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.
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- New York Review Books
- 04/06/2010
- NYRB Classics Series
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...
Apr 6, 2010 · William Lindsay Gresham. New York Review Books, Apr 6, 2010 - Fiction - 275 pages. Nightmare Alley begins with an extraordinary description of a freak-show geek—alcoholic and abject and the...
