Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Gresham, William Lindsay; Tosches, Nick |
| Publisher: | NYRB Classics |
| Date: | 4/6/2010 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
Now a major motion picture from Academy Award–winning director Guillermo del Toro and starring Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, and Toni Collette
Nominated for 4 Oscars, including Best Picture
Nightmare Alley begins with an extraordinaryof a carnival-show geek—alcoholicand abject and the object of the voyeuristic crowd’s gleeful disgust and derision—goingabout his work at a county fair. Young Stan Carlisle is working as a carny, and hewonders how a man could fall so low. There’s no way in hell, he vows, that anythinglike that will ever happen to him.
And since Stan is clever and ambitious and notwithout a useful streak of ruthlessness, soon enough he’s going places. Onstage heplays the mentalist with a cute assistant (before long his harried wife), then he graduatesto full-blown spiritualist, catering to the needs of the rich and gullible in theirwell-upholstered homes. It looks like the world is Stan’s for the taking. At leastfor now.
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