Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s: The Killer Inside Me / The Talented Mr. Ripley / Pick-up / Down There / The Real Cool Killers (Library of America) (Vol 2)
by Robert Polito, Patricia Highsmith, charles Willeford, David Goodis, Chester Himes
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Author: charles Willeford, Chester Himes, David Goodis, Patricia Highsmith, Robert PolitoEditor: Jim Thompson
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1997-09-01
ISBN: 1883011493
Number of pages: 892
Publisher: Library of America
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Book Review: Worth it just for Nightmare Alley
Summary: 5 Stars
Nightmare Alley is, in my opinion, the best novel ever published in the English language. It's the story of the rise and fall of the magician and spiritualist Stan Carlisle. Aristotle would've liked it. It has a tragic reversal that beats Oedipus Rex. The prose writing is finely honed. William Lindsay Gresham doesn't waste a word. Nightmare Alley is frightening, mystical, satiric... it's more than everything you could hope for in a novel. I read that the author got the material for it while fighting in the Spanish Civil War. Hemingway also covered that war, and how many books about the war did he milk out of it? Yet somehow William Gresham came out of it with a tale of an American carnival...
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