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.
Authors
William Gresham
Additional Info
- Release Date: 2010-04-06
- Publisher: NYRB Classics
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781590173480
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