{"product_id":"nightmare-alley-von-william-lindsay-gresham-1","title":"Nightmare Alley","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNightmare 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9781590173480\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9781590173480","offer_id":57242587529541,"sku":"9781590173480","price":17.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/0abefe9e-2e10-478d-bdd3-a6bf66debdfc.jpg?v=1780632875","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/nightmare-alley-von-william-lindsay-gresham-1","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}