{"product_id":"nightmare-alley-new-york-review-books-paperback","title":"Nightmare Alley","description":"\u003cp\u003eNow a major motion picture from Academy Award–winning director Guillermo del Toro and starring Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, and Toni Collette\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNominated for 4 Oscars, including Best Picture\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNightmare 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.\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 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\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45131365875935,"sku":"9781590173480","price":42.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/2185\/3151\/files\/9781590173480.jpg?v=1744083950","url":"https:\/\/lamplightbooks.pro\/products\/nightmare-alley-new-york-review-books-paperback","provider":"Lamplight Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}