{"product_id":"nightmare-alley-9781590173480","title":"Nightmare Alley","description":"\u003ci\u003eNightmare Alley \u003c\/i\u003ebegins 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/06\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590173480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 275\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.56w x 0.67d","brand":"William Lindsay Gresham","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36660814512284,"sku":"9781590173480","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_7fa0bce4-e02a-49c9-85f3-1926012858b6.jpg?v=1603897605","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/nightmare-alley-9781590173480","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}