{"product_id":"nightmare-alley-by-william-lindsay-gresham","title":"Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNow a major motion picture from Academy Award–winning director Guillermo del Toro and starring Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, and Toni Collette\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNominated for 4 Oscars, including Best Picture\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNightmare Alley\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebegins 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaperback book in excellent condition\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mt Lebanon Book Cellar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67579328889012,"sku":"F - PB - SEO","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0504\/7097\/7716\/files\/814KfKlGLlL._SY466.jpg?v=1790965343","url":"https:\/\/mt-lebanon-book-cellar.myshopify.com\/products\/nightmare-alley-by-william-lindsay-gresham","provider":"Mt Lebanon Book Cellar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}