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Nightmare Alley. Spain Rodriguez, Spain, William Lindsay Gresham

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ISBN: 9781560975113 | 136 pages | 4 Mb

• Nightmare Alley
• Spain Rodriguez, Spain, William Lindsay Gresham
• Page: 136
• Format: pdf, ePub, fb2, mobi
• ISBN: 9781560975113
• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books

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An adaptation of the long out-of-print 1930s cult novel of the same name by William Lindsay Gresham, illustrated by legendary underground cartoonist Spain Rodriguez. The story is a study of the lowest depths of showbiz and its sleazy inhabitants and environs, the dark, shadowy world of a second rate carnival filled with cheap hustlers, scheming grifters, and Machiavellian femmes fatales. Gresham was born in Baltimore in 1909, but grew up in New York. Nightmare Alley was highly influenced by the freaks and sideshows he routinely observed at Coney Island as a child. The dark side of carnival life is the world of Nightmare Alley, deeply rooted in early film noir and the hard-boiled books of ...