Nightmare alley
(Book)
Published
New York : New York Review of Books, 2021.
Status
Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Gresham, W.
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Gresham, W.
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| Location | Call Number | Status |
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Published
New York : New York Review of Books, 2021.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xiii, 275 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Novel originally published in 1946. This edition is a tie-in to the 2021 motion picture, but was originally published in 2010 by New York Review Books.
Description
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.
Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Gresham, W. L. (2021). Nightmare alley (Movie tie-in edition.). New York Review of Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Gresham, William Lindsay, 1909-1962. 2021. Nightmare Alley. New York Review of Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Gresham, William Lindsay, 1909-1962. Nightmare Alley New York Review of Books, 2021.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Gresham, William Lindsay. Nightmare Alley Movie tie-in edition., New York Review of Books, 2021.
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