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Nightmare Alley
by William Lindsay Gresham
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1526640864
- ISBN 13
- 9781526640864
- Seller
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Traralgon, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Raven Books, UK, 2021. Reprint. Medium Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Medium Trade Paperback. 372 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Raven Books, UK, 2021. Reprint. *** CONDITION: This book is in near fine condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Corners of covers are lightly bumped. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Stanton Carlisle, employed as a carny at a travelling circus watches their freak-show geek - an abject alcoholic, the object of the voyeuristic crowd's gleeful disgust and derision - and 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. Unlike the tragic figure he sees before him, Stan is young, clever and ambitious and quick to learn from the other carnival acts. Initially teaming up with a beautiful but vulnerable woman as part of a double act in which he mesmerises her, Stan soon leaves his circus days behind him, becoming a successful spiritualist who exploits the weak and the wealthy. But even the very best con-men can meet their match.... *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Movie / TV Tie-in; ISBN/EAN: 9781526640864. Inventory No: 24040054.. 9781526640864
Synopsis
Nightmare Alley is a novel by William Lindsay Gresham. It is a study of the lowest depths of showbiz and its sleazy inhabitants- the dark, shadowy world of a second rate carnival filled with hustlers, scheming grifters, and Machiavellian femme fatales.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Manyhills Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24040054
- Title
- Nightmare Alley
- Author
- William Lindsay Gresham
- Format/Binding
- Medium Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1526640864
- ISBN 13
- 9781526640864
- Publisher
- Raven Books
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 2021
- Keywords
- BZDB5 Fiction; Nightmare Alley
- Bookseller catalogs
- Movie / TV Tie-in; Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Manyhills Books
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Traralgon, Victoria
About Manyhills Books
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- Reprint
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