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Artikelmerkmale
- Artikelzustand
- Artist
- Gresham, William L.
- Date of Publication
- 2010-04-06
- Publication Name
- N/A
- Release Title
- Nightmare Alley (New York Review Books (Paperback))
- Signed
- No
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Original Language
- English
- Inscribed
- No
- Intended Audience
- Young Adults, Adults
- Edition
- First Edition
- Colour
- N/A
- Vintage
- Yes
- Brand
- N/A
- Type
- Paperback / softback
- EAN
- 9781590173480
- ISBN
- 1590173481
- Era
- 2010s
- Personalized
- No
- Features
- Illustrated
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
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Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1590173481
ISBN-13
9781590173480
eBay Product ID (ePID)
78386540
Product Key Features
Book Title
Nightmare Alley
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2010
Topic
Psychological, Thrillers / Suspense, Crime, General, Noir
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
11.2 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2009-051327
Reviews
"[Gresham's] legacy was a brilliant and horrific book - read it and you'll never refer to someone as a geek again." -- The Times (London) "Written in 1946 and just reissued, Nightmare Alley was adapted into one of the most scabrous films of the 1940s. It's a grifter story, a carny story, whose main character is Stan Carlisle, a handsome con artist/fake mind reader who slowly works his way down the food chain until there's nothing left for him except the job of circus geek. It's a novel in which no ray of light ever penetrates. The novel is a fascinating curio of undoubtedly justified self-loathing -- Gresham's second wife, the poet Joy Davidman, left him for C.S. Lewis. Gresham committed suicide in 1962. The new edition has a preface by Nick Tosches, who is working on a biography of Gresham. Certainly one of the most valuable reissues of the year." -- The Palm Beach Post "For contemporary audiences who have never strolled through sawdust and tinsel, the carnival chapters of Nightmare Alley offer an unnerving slice of seedy Americana." -- The Baltimore Sun "The 'nightmare' of the title rings true, for this delirious and unstoppable novel&inverts the American dream. The plot turns the Horatio Alger myth on its head and the psychology leans on Freud, but the torment, the pervading sense that the human creature lives in a trap he or she is doomed never to escape, comes from the heart and mind of the author. Never was noir more autobiographical than here&. Nightmare Alley remains a masterpiece, not only due to its driving narrative power, but because it's underpinned by the premise that the human animal is alone, helpless in the face of destiny, stumbling in the dark, down the nightmare alley toward the inevitable wall of death at the end. Yet we can't stop ourselves hoping, and fearing, that there might be something beyond that wall. The message of this disquieting book couldn't be more human, yet that message is metaphysical rather than moral." - Los Angeles Times " Nightmare Alley combines the creepy world of Tod Browning's movie, 'Freaks' with the relentless cynicism of a Jim Thompson novel." - Time magazine "For fans of vaudeville and magic, the book is a treasure trove of trade secrets." -Walter Kirn, The New York Times " Nightmare Alley is a portrait of greed seen through the rise and fall of a carny con man." - Publishers Weekly "Gresham&wrote with vivid punch and a close understanding of the carnival world." - Los Angeles Times A "remarkable study in the disintegration of carvinal show heel." - The New York Times "An impressive low-life novel." - The Observer (London) "Mr. Gresham yanked the reviewer into the midst of his macabre and compelling novel, andkept him a breathless captive until the tour was over. It's a truly rewarding whirl through his nightmare alley&All of it adds up to Grade-A guignol with a touch of black magic about it&If you enjoy hundred-proof evil-and a cogent analysis of same with your nightcap-then, in the words of the Ten-in-One barker, hurry, hurry, hurry!" -James MacBride, The New York Times "While Gresham is usually described as a "popular novelist," the epithet fails to capture his contemporary notoriety. Gresham wrote the 1946 best-seller "Nightmare Alley" (dedicated to Davidman), a grotesque noir classic about the carnival demimonde, later made into an arresting film with Tyrone Power and Joan Blondell. One reviewer described the book as a 'tough, relentless, colorful novel that exposes the private world of the freaks in order to comment on a sick, degrading society.'" - San Francisco Chronicle, "[Gresham's] legacy was a brilliant and horrific book - read it and you'll never refer to someone as a geek again." --The Times(London) "Written in 1946 and just reissued, Nightmare Alley was adapted into one of the most scabrous films of the 1940s. It's a grifter story, a carny story, whose main character is Stan Carlisle, a handsome con artist/fake mind reader who slowly works his way down the food chain until there's nothing left for him except the job of circus geek. It's a novel in which no ray of light ever penetrates. The novel is a fascinating curio of undoubtedly justified self-loathing -- Gresham's second wife, the poet Joy Davidman, left him for C.S. Lewis. Gresham committed suicide in 1962. The new edition has a preface by Nick Tosches, who is working on a biography of Gresham. Certainly one of the most valuable reissues of the year." --The Palm Beach Post "For contemporary audiences who have never strolled through sawdust and tinsel, the carnival chapters ofNightmare Alley offer an unnerving slice of seedy Americana." --The Baltimore Sun"The 'nightmare' of the title rings true, for this delirious and unstoppable novel…inverts the American dream. The plot turns the Horatio Alger myth on its head and the psychology leans on Freud, but the torment, the pervading sense that the human creature lives in a trap he or she is doomed never to escape, comes from the heart and mind of the author. Never was noir more autobiographical than here….Nightmare Alleyremains a masterpiece, not only due to its driving narrative power, but because it's underpinned by the premise that the human animal is alone, helpless in the face of destiny, stumbling in the dark, down the nightmare alley toward the inevitable wall of death at the end. Yet we can't stop ourselves hoping, and fearing, that there might be something beyond that wall. The message of this disquieting book couldn't be more human, yet that message is metaphysical rather than moral." -Los Angeles Times "Nightmare Alleycombines the creepy world of Tod Browning's movie, 'Freaks' with the relentless cynicism of a Jim Thompson novel." -Timemagazine"For fans of vaudeville and magic, the book is a treasure trove of trade secrets." -Walter Kirn,The New York Times"Nightmare Alleyis a portrait of greed seen through the rise and fall of a carny con man." -Publishers Weekly"Gresham…wrote with vivid punch and a close understanding of the carnival world." -Los Angeles TimesA "remarkable study in the disintegration of carvinal show heel." -The New York Times"An impressive low-life novel." -The Observer(London)"Mr. Gresham yanked the reviewer into the midst of his macabre and compelling novel, andkept him a breathless captive until the tour was over. It's a truly rewarding whirl through his nightmare alley…All of it adds up to Grade-A guignol with a touch of black magic about it…If you enjoy hundred-proof evil-and a cogent analysis of same with your nightcap-then, in the words of the Ten-in-One barker, hurry, hurry, hurry!" -James MacBride,The New York Times"While Gresham is usually described as a "popular novelist," the epithet fails to capture his contemporary notoriety. Gresham wrote the 1946 best-seller "Nightmare Alley" (dedicated to Davidman), a grotesque noir classic about the carnival demimonde, later made into an arresting film with Tyrone Power and Joan Blondell. One reviewer described the book as a 'tough, relentless, colorful novel that exposes the private world of the freaks in order to comment on a sick, degrading society.'" -, A blisteringly fine read, full of alcoholic horror, sexual heat and the fakery surrounding the spook racket., "Nightmare Alleycombines the creepy world of Tod Browning's movie, 'Freaks' with the relentless cynicism of a Jim Thompson novel." -Timemagazine "For fans of vaudeville and magic, the book is a treasure trove of trade secrets." -Walter Kirn,The New York Times "Nightmare Alleyis a portrait of greed seen through the rise and fall of a carny con man." -Publishers Weekly "Gresham…wrote with vivid punch and a close understanding of the carnival world." -Los Angeles Times A "remarkable study in the disintegration of carvinal show heel." -The New York Times "An impressive low-life novel." -The Observer(London) "Mr. Gresham yanked the reviewer into the midst of his macabre and compelling novel, andkept him a breathless captive until the tour was over. It's a truly rewarding whirl through his nightmare alley…All of it adds up to Grade-A guignol with a touch of black magic about it…If you enjoy hundred-proof evil-and a cogent analysis of same with your nightcap-then, in the words of the Ten-in-One barker, hurry, hurry, hurry!" -James MacBride,The New York Times "While Gresham is usually described as a "popular novelist," the epithet fails to capture his contemporary notoriety. Gresham wrote the 1946 best-seller "Nightmare Alley" (dedicated to Davidman), a grotesque noir classic about the carnival demimonde, later made into an arresting film with Tyrone Power and Joan Blondell. One reviewer described the book as a 'tough, relentless, colorful novel that exposes the private world of the freaks in order to comment on a sick, degrading society.'" -San Francisco Chronicle "William Lindsay Gresham was obsessed by the darker side of circuses and carnivals. His knowledge was profound, his sensitivity to the vice and viciousness lying just underneath the tinseled, gaudy, surface, remarkable." -John Howard Reid,Hollywood Gold "Gresham…has something of Nelson Algren's mordant power in picturing denizens of the lower depths…his is a promising contender for heavyweight honors in the rough, tough and morbid division." -Jack Conroy,The Chicago Defender, "For contemporary audiences who have never strolled through sawdust and tinsel, the carnival chapters ofNightmare Alley offer an unnerving slice of seedy Americana." --The Baltimore Sun "The 'nightmare' of the title rings true, for this delirious and unstoppable novel…inverts the American dream. The plot turns the Horatio Alger myth on its head and the psychology leans on Freud, but the torment, the pervading sense that the human creature lives in a trap he or she is doomed never to escape, comes from the heart and mind of the author. Never was noir more autobiographical than here….Nightmare Alleyremains a masterpiece, not only due to its driving narrative power, but because it's underpinned by the premise that the human animal is alone, helpless in the face of destiny, stumbling in the dark, down the nightmare alley toward the inevitable wall of death at the end. Yet we can't stop ourselves hoping, and fearing, that there might be something beyond that wall. The message of this disquieting book couldn't be more human, yet that message is metaphysical rather than moral." -Los Angeles Times "Nightmare Alleycombines the creepy world of Tod Browning's movie, 'Freaks' with the relentless cynicism of a Jim Thompson novel." -Timemagazine "For fans of vaudeville and magic, the book is a treasure trove of trade secrets." -Walter Kirn,The New York Times "Nightmare Alleyis a portrait of greed seen through the rise and fall of a carny con man." -Publishers Weekly "Gresham…wrote with vivid punch and a close understanding of the carnival world." -Los Angeles Times A "remarkable study in the disintegration of carvinal show heel." -The New York Times "An impressive low-life novel." -The Observer(London) "Mr. Gresham yanked the reviewer into the midst of his macabre and compelling novel, andkept him a breathless captive until the tour was over. It's a truly rewarding whirl through his nightmare alley…All of it adds up to Grade-A guignol with a touch of black magic about it…If you enjoy hundred-proof evil-and a cogent analysis of same with your nightcap-then, in the words of the Ten-in-One barker, hurry, hurry, hurry!" -James MacBride,The New York Times "While Gresham is usually described as a "popular novelist," the epithet fails to capture his contemporary notoriety. Gresham wrote the 1946 best-seller "Nightmare Alley" (dedicated to Davidman), a grotesque noir classic about the carnival demimonde, later made into an arresting film with Tyrone Power and Joan Blondell. One reviewer described the book as a 'tough, relentless, colorful novel that exposes the private world of the freaks in order to comment on a sick, degrading society.'" -San Francisco Chronicle "William Lindsay Gresham was obsessed by the darker side of circuses and carnivals. His knowledge was profound, his sensitivity to the vice and viciousness lying just underneath the tinseled, gaudy, surface, remarkable." -John Howard Reid,Hollywood Gold "Gresham…has something of Nelson Algren's mordant power in picturing denizens of the lower depths…his is a promising contender for heavyweight honors in the rough, tough and morbid division." -Jack Conroy,The Chicago Defender
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Synopsis
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., 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 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., 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., One of the twentieth century's most darkly beautiful works of crime fiction--a story of carny life, spiritualism, and a con man of merciless resolve. 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.
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PS3513.R625N54 2010
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- t***n (51)- Bewertung vom Käufer.Letzte 6 MonateBestätigter KaufArrived promptly and exactly as listed — excellent quality, very good condition, attractive appearance, and fair price; well packaged and a smooth transaction. Seller answered my questions before buying. Outstanding. Highly recommend this seller.