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Nightmare Alley

Nightmare Alley( )
Author: Gresham, William Lindsay
Introduction by: Tosches, Nick
ISBN:978-1-59017-348-0
Publication Date:Apr 2010
Publisher:New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Imprint:NYRB Classics
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $17.95
Book Description:

Nightmare 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.

Book Details
Pages:304
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / General
Fiction / Crime
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.14 x 7.96 x 0.75 Inches
Book Weight:0.7 Pounds
Author Biography
Gresham, William Lindsay (Author)
Born in Newark & schooled in his father's bar, Nick Tosches is one of the most original & individualistic writers at work today. He is the author of acclaimed biographies of Sonny Liston, (The Devil & Sonny Liston), Dean Martin (Dino), the Mafia financier Michele Sindona (Power on Earth), & Jerry Lee Lewis (Hellfire); of several books about popular music (Country & Unsung Heroes of Rock 'n' Roll); & of the novels "Trinities" & "Cut Numbers". Thirty years of his writing was recently collected into "The Nick Tosches Reader" (Da Capo). He is a contributing editor of "Vanity Fair". He lives in New York City, & his poetry readings are legend.

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