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  Martin Dressler: the Tale of an American Dreamer (Vintage contemporaries) (Paperback) By (author) Steven Millhauser

  

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  Short Description for Martin Dressler: the Tale of an American DreamerIn Steven Millhauser's new novel set in turn-of-the-century New York City, we watch young entrepreneur Martin Dressler like many of his day make the ascent from hotel bellhop to builder of hotels. . . . This mesmerizing novel brings us face to face with the ambiguity beneath the optimism of the American dream with a swiftness and intensity that are in themselves magnificently dreamlike.
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  • Publisher: Vintage Books
  • Published: 01 May 1997
  • Format: Paperback 15 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Historical Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780679781271 ISBN 10: 0679781277
  • Sales rank: 154,192

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Full description for Martin Dressler: the Tale of an American Dreamer

• Young Martin Dressler begins his career as a 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. His visions grow more and more fantastical as he plans his ultimate creation: the Grand Cosmo, in which he attempts to capture the entire world and its dreams. Accompanied on this journey by two sisters - one a dreamlike shadow, the other a wordly business partner - Martin walks a haunted line between fantasy and reality, madness and ambition, art and industry. The Grand Cosmo is his triumph and his undoing, the bold conclusion to this biography of the twentieth-century notion of progress, this mesmerizing journey to the heart of the American dream.