William Lindsay Gresham
Nightmare Alley
7 editions
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1946
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Houdini: The Man Who Walked Through Walls
34 editions
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1975
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Monster Midway: An Uninhibited Look at the Glittering World of the Carny
5 editions
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1953
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Limbo Tower
14 editions
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1949
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Grindshow: The Selected Writings of William Lindsay Gresham
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2014
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Le peuple du grand chariot
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The Book of Strength: Body Building the Safe, Correct Way
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The Dream Dust Factory
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Houdini
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O beco das ilusões perdidas: Romance
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“What sort of God would put us here in this goddamned, stinking slaughterhouse of a world?”
― Nightmare Alley
― Nightmare Alley
“How helpless they all looked in the ugliness of sleep. A third of life spent unconscious and corpselike. And some, the great majority, stumbled through their waking hours scarcely more awake, helpless in the face of destiny. They stumbled down a dark alley toward their deaths. They sent exploring feelers into the light and met fire and writhed back again into the darkness of their blind groping.”
― Nightmare Alley
― Nightmare Alley
“Man comes into the world a blind, groping mite. He knows hunger and the fear of noise and of falling. His life is spent in flight - flight from hunger and from the thunderbolt of destiny. From his moment of birth he begins to fall through the whistling air of Time: down, down into a chasm of darkness . . . we come like a breath of wind over the fields of morning. We go like a lamp flame caught by a blast from a darkened window. In between we journey from table to table, from battle to bottle, from bed to bed. We suck, we chew, we swallow, we lick, we try to mash life into us like an am-am-amoeba God damn it! Somebody lets us loose like a toad out of a matchbox and we jump and jump and jump and the guy always behind us, and when he gets tired he stomps us to death and our guts squirt out on each side of the boot of All Merciful Providence. The son-of-a-bitch!”
― Nightmare Alley
― Nightmare Alley
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