Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer

✍ Scribed by Millhauser, Steven

• Book ID: 108380505
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 572 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780679766520

✦ Synopsis

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.

From the Hardcover edition.