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With cate blanchett, rooney mara, ron perlman, bradley cooper. From these demons came his novel nightmare alley, one of the underground classics of american literature. Nightmare alley begins with an extraordinary description of a freakshow geekalcoholic and abject and the object of the voyeuristic crowds gleeful disgust and derisiongoing about his work at a county fair. An immediate sensation when it appeared in 1946, the book spawned a classic film starring tyrone power and joan blondell, sowed the seeds for the literary subgenre of carnival noir, and introduced to the popculture vocabulary the term geek.
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