{"product_id":"9781590174289","title":"Nightmare Alley","description":"\u003ci\u003eNightmare Alley \u003c\/i\u003ebegins 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. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 bimbo (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.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47134357553392,"sku":"9781590174289","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590174289_p0.jpg?v=1763804354","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590174289","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}