Gresham William Lindsay (Livres)

Gresham William Lindsay Livres

William Lindsay Gresham s'est imposé comme une voix littéraire captivante, particulièrement réputé pour ses explorations sans concession du monde du cirque et des courants plus sombres de la vie américaine. Son écriture se caractérise par un style brut et puissant qui explore les thèmes de l'illusion, de l'ambition et du poids écrasant du destin. S'inspirant de ses propres expériences variées, Gresham a créé des récits qui offrent un regard cru et perspicace sur la condition humaine. Les lecteurs sont attirés par ses représentations authentiques et souvent troublantes de personnages aux prises avec le désespoir et l'attrait de l'impossible.

Nightmare alley

400pages
14 heures de lecture

3,9(4807)Évaluer

OUT NOW IN CINEMAS AND NOMINATED FOR FOUR OSCARS A cool, cruel, rediscovered classic of American noir adapted for cinemas by Guillermo del Toro, starring Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara 'Read and shudder. And relish' Guardian 'A creepy, all-too-harrowing masterpiece' Washington Post Stanton 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. Unlike 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.... With a new introduction from James Smythe, Nightmare Alley is a forgotten classic of Depression-era America: a brilliant, horrifying, compulsive journey into the true darkness of the human mind.