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Soon to be a major motion picture from Academy Award-winning director Guillermo del Toro and starring Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, and Toni Collette.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.
- Einband Taschenbuch
- Schriftsteller Gresham, William Lindsay
- ISBN13 9781681376103
- ISBN10 1681376105
- Sammlung INGLES
- Jahr der Ausgabe 1970
- Sprache Englisch
Nightmare Alley: Movie tie-in edition (New York Review Books)
- Autor/in William Lindsay Gresham
- Verlag RANDOM HOUSE USA INC
- ISBN 9781681376103
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