Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Millhaus

ISBN: 0679781277

Author: Millhauser, Steven

Condition: new

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST The author of Voices in the Night reveals the mesmerizing journey of an American dreamer as he walks a haunted line between fantasy and reality, madness and ambition, art and industry.This wonderful, wonder-full book is a fable and phantasmagoria of the sources of our century. -The New York Times Book ReviewYoung 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, a sense of doom builds piece-by-hypnotic piece until this mesmerizing journey reaches its bitter-sweet conclusion.