{"product_id":"nightmare-alley","title":"Nightmare Alley","description":"\u003cp\u003eStanton Carlisle, employed as a carny at a travelling circus watches their freak-show geek - an abject alcoholic, the object of the voyeuristic crowd’s gleeful disgust and derision - and 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\n\u003cp\u003eUnlike the tragic figure he sees before him, Stan is young, clever and ambitious and quick to learn from the other carnival acts. Initially teaming up with a beautiful but vulnerable woman as part of a double act in which he mesmerises her, Stan soon leaves his circus days behind him, becoming a successful spiritualist who exploits the weak and the wealthy. But even the very best con-men can meet their match....\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003ePublished: 2021\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003ePages: 400\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003eISBN 13: 9781526640864\u003cbr\u003eISBN 10: 1526640864\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Lindsay Gresham","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49926795198730,"sku":"","price":12.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/files\/9781526640864.jpg?v=1725973561","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/nightmare-alley","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}