*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.
Nightmare Alley
โ Scribed by Gresham, William Lindsay
- Publisher
- New York Review Books
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 325 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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