Buch Details
Nightmare Alley was American writer William Lindsay Gresham's first book, and was a bestseller, subsequently being adapted into a film in 1947. The novel was in part inspired by conversations Gresham had with a former sideshow employee whom he befriended while volunteering during the Spanish Civil War.
Gresham followed Nightmare Alley with one further piece of fiction, and three works of non-fiction, but was unable to replicate the success of his debut. Gresham married three times, and his second wife, the poet and novelist Joy Davidman later (on her death bed) became the wife of British author C.S. Lewis. An early adopter of Scientology, which he later denounced, Gresham overcame his alcoholism via Alcoholics Anonymous but struggled with his mental health. Facing a diagnosis of terminal cancer, he committed suicide in 1962. In his pocket were found business cards reading, 'No Address. No Phone. No Business. No Money. Retired.'
- Einband Taschenbuch
- Schriftsteller Gresham, William Lindsay
- ISBN13 9781526628497
- ISBN10 152662849X
- Buchseiten 400
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2021
- Sprache Englisch
Nightmare Alley
- Autor/in William Lindsay Gresham
- Verlag BLOOMSBURY
- ISBN 9781526628497
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