Description
Title: Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
Author: Steven Millhauser
ISBN: 0679781277
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1997
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Number of Pages: 293
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher : 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.
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