Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
Steven Millhauser
293 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0679781277
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Language: English
Publish: March 25, 1997
AmericanClassicsFantasyFictionHistoricalHistorical FictionLiterary FictionLiteratureNew YorkNovels
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.