William Lindsay Gresham (1909–1962)
Autore di Nightmare Alley
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: University Libraries. University of Maryland
Opere di William Lindsay Gresham
Nightmare Alley 23 copie
The Dream Dust Factory 2 copie
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The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction December 1953, Vol. 5, No. 6 (1953) — Collaboratore — 8 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Gresham, William Lindsay
- Nome legale
- Gresham, William Wilkins
- Data di nascita
- 1909-08-20
- Data di morte
- 1962-09-14
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Luogo di morte
- New York, New York, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- New York, New York, USA
Miami, Florida, USA
New Rochelle, New York, USA - Attività lavorative
- novelist
non-fiction writer - Relazioni
- Davidman, Joy (ex-wife)
Gresham, Douglas H. (son)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 9
- Opere correlate
- 8
- Utenti
- 936
- Popolarità
- #27,447
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 35
- ISBN
- 41
- Lingue
- 6
- Preferito da
- 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.… (altro)