{"product_id":"nightmare-alley","title":"Nightmare Alley","description":"\u003cp\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 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNominated for 4 Oscars, including Best Picture\u003cbr\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.\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":"New York Review of Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988844757181,"sku":"BS-TC0-173480","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9781590173480-HD.jpg?v=1786619028","url":"https:\/\/boundigo.com\/products\/nightmare-alley","provider":"Boundigo Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}