William Lindsay Gresham (1909–1962)
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Œuvres de William Lindsay Gresham
Nightmare Alley 23 exemplaires
The Dream Dust Factory 2 exemplaires
Oeuvres associées
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Scoundrels & Scalawags: 51 Stories of the Most Fascinating Characters of Hoax and Fraud (1968) — Contributeur — 53 exemplaires
These Found the Way: Thirteen Converts to Protestant Christianity (1951) — Contributeur — 11 exemplaires
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction December 1953, Vol. 5, No. 6 (1953) — Contributeur — 8 exemplaires
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- Nom canonique
- Gresham, William Lindsay
- Nom légal
- Gresham, William Wilkins
- Date de naissance
- 1909-08-20
- Date de décès
- 1962-09-14
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Lieu du décès
- New York, New York, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- New York, New York, USA
Miami, Florida, USA
New Rochelle, New York, USA - Professions
- novelist
non-fiction writer - Relations
- Davidman, Joy (ex-wife)
Gresham, Douglas H. (son)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 9
- Aussi par
- 8
- Membres
- 936
- Popularité
- #27,447
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 35
- ISBN
- 41
- Langues
- 6
- Favoris
- 2
It’s not noir in the typical sense, at least in the way I typically conceive it. Nightmare Alley isn't a lean and cutting piece of work like The Grifters or The Postman Always Rings Twice. It feels more expansive and lived-in, where the reader is immersed in different worlds, following Stanton Carlisle's transformation from traveling circus magician to "the Great Stanton" to Reverend Carlisle, Pastor of the Church of the Heavenly Message. The setup is long, and so is the con.
Nightmare Alley situates the characters in a grander, wider milieu than del Toro’s movie could portray--in particular, amidst pre-World War II preoccupations with spiritualism and hypnotism. These mediums and mentalists are depicted as part of the same spectrum as the fake carnival attractions that fill the first half of the book. And so is psychoanalysis, which in Nightmare Alley is portrayed as the most malevolent grift of all.… (plus d'informations)