| Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer Contributor(s): Millhauser, Steven (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679781277 ISBN-13: 9780679781271 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1997 Annotation: Young Martin Dressler begins his career as an industrious helper in his father's cigar store. In the course of his restless young manhood, he makes a swift and eventful rise to the top, accompanied by two sisters--one a dreamlike shadow, the other a worldly business partner. As the eponymous Martin's vision becomes bolder and bolder he walks a haunted line between fantasy and reality, madness and ambition, art and industry, a sense of doom builds piece-by-hypnotic piece until this mesmerizing journey into the heart of an American dreamer reaches its bitter-sweet conclusion. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Coming Of Age - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 96000683 |
| Series: Vintage Contemporaries |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.2" W x 8" (0.75 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Finalist Young Martin Dressler begins his career as an industrious helper in his father's cigar store. In the course of his restless young manhood, he makes a swift and eventful rise to the top, accompanied by two sisters--one a dreamlike shadow, the other a worldly business partner. As the eponymous Martin's vision becomes bolder and bolder he walks a haunted line between fantasy and reality, madness and ambition, art and industry, a sense of doom builds piece-by-hypnotic piece until this mesmerizing journey into the heart of an American dreamer reaches its bitter-sweet conclusion. |