Nightmare alley
Book |
Movie tie-in edition. |
New York Review of Books,
New York :
[2021]
- 1 of 1 Copy Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
| Branch | Call Number | Location | Holdable? | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thorold | FIC GRESH | Fiction | Copy hold / Volume hold | Available |
About
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. Read less.
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Details
- ISBN: 9781681376103
- Physical Description: 275 pages ; 22 cm.
- Edition: Movie tie-in edition.
- Publisher: New York : New York Review of Books, [2021]
- Copyright: ©1946.
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General Note:
"Now a major motion picture"--Cover.