Details
Nightmare Alley (Unabridged)
19,99 € |
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Verlag: | Naxos Audiobooks |
Format: | MP3 (in ZIP-Archiv) |
Veröffentl.: | 02.05.2011 |
ISBN/EAN: | 4057664034519 |
Sprache: | englisch |
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Beschreibungen
Nightmare Alley is American author William Lindsay Gresham’s first and best-known work. The novel - most admired by noir fiction fans - was published in 1946, adapted into a film in 1947 starring Tyrone Power and subsequently printed as a graphic novel by Spain Rodriquez. During the 1940s Gresham worked as an editor for a genuine crime pulp magazine in New York, during which period he wrote this book; characters range from hustlers to Machiavellian femme fatales in a dark world of show business. Stan Carlisle is an ambitious 'carny’ who eventually becomes a spiritualist for the rich and gullible. It appears that the world is at his feet, but not everything is as it seems….