Bibliograph

Nightmare Alley, William Lindsay Gresham

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Nightmare Alley, William Lindsay Gresham

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

Nightmare Alley

Oclc number

1272907906

Responsibility statement

William Lindsay Gresham

Summary

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. On stage 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

Table Of Contents

The fool -- The magician -- The high priestess -- The world -- The empress -- Resurrection of the dead -- The emperor -- The sun -- The hierophant -- The moon -- The lovers -- the star -- The chariot -- The tower -- Justice -- The devil -- The hermit -- Time -- The wheel of fortune -- Death -- Strength -- The hanged man

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