{"product_id":"9781681376103-1","title":"Nightmare Alley","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNominated for 4 Oscars, including Best Picture\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNightmare Alley \u003c\/i\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\/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":"William Lindsay Gresham","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US) \/ New York Review Books \/ 2021-12-07","offer_id":42140917268735,"sku":"9781681376103","price":23.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/products\/BNCImageAPI_0316a832-6bb9-47da-b80f-a0dd342b1b22.jpg?v=1638564571","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781681376103-1","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}