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Steven Millhauser, MARTIN DRESSLER, NR, TRADE SZ PB

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Author: Steven MillhauserFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage BooksISBN-10: 0679781277
Edition Description: ReprintISBN-13: 9780679781271
Subject: HistoricalPublication Year: 1997
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Language: EnglishCondition: Very Good
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Martin Dressler works in his father's cigar store in 1890s Manhattan, where he learns the basics of business. He goes into hotel work--first as a bellhop, but eventually rising to own a hotel before he's 30. Alternating Martin's dreams with the day-to-day detail of his life, Millhauser evokes the business and personal world of turn-of-the-century America.

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Series:Vintage Contemporaries Series

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Height:8.3 in.
Width:5.3 in.
Thickness:0.8 in.
Weight:8.8 oz.

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In 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.
Young Martin Dressler begins his career as an industrious helper in his fathers 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.

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"As should be self-evident, Millhauser has taken on big themes in 'Martin Dressler'. These include not merely the American longing for illusion and escape, but also the pitfalls of great ambition and the rise and fall of the modern city. In embracing these themes it is therefore a transparently American novel, and a most convincing one, and well worth the long wait since 'Edwin Mullhouse'."
Washington Post Book World - Jonathan Yardley (04/28/1996)

"...Millhauser's delight in physical detail is too powerful; the book is suspended on a latticework of carefully described things--buildings, furnishings and bric-a-brac, the expanding city, and the wholly impossible rooms of the author's imagination--which become [the book's] real characters, while its animate population recedes into a dim and uncertain background. It is a singular and strange effect, resulting in an altogether disarming novel--a charm, rather than a masterpiece, but a wonderful thing to read."
Voice Literary Supplement - Jim Lewis (05/19/1996)

"To call 'Martin Dressler' a cautionary tale about the lures of American capitalism would be to misunderstand the book's intentions. Its subtitle is 'The Tale of an American Dreamer', and dreams, or alternative worlds, are an important motif. In fact Mr. Millhauser's novel is a fable about the power of the imagination: Dressler's hotels, with their ever more elaborate simulations of reality, are each, in a way, a house of fiction, and the act of imagining them is more vital to Dressler's existence than any wealth of prestige the buildings themselves might bring."
Wall Street Journal - Donna Rifkind (04/24/1996)

"'Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer' gives a wonderfully weird sense of being not QUITE a novel at all, but some new hybrid--half-biography, half-history--ripped from real life....Millhauser clearly means us...to challenge the limits of the form. This novel is a rich mediation on both late 19th-century America and on the novel itself."
Philadelphia Inquirer - Lisa Zeidner (05/26/1996)

"Millhauser's ornate prose and hypnotic accumulation of period detail are the camouflage for a very modern story about how the rush to embrace the future--ever more, bigger, newer--can finally leave everything human behind."
Los Angeles Times Book Review - Michael Harris (05/26/1996)

"A fascinating and provocative portrayal of turn-of-the-century America that hums with energy and wit. It might be another of Dreiser's densely packed tales of financiers and titans, written at characteristic white heat, but by an immeasurably more graceful stylist."
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This is the trade size (approx 5" x 8") paperback book MARTIN DRESSLER, THE TALE OF AN AMERICAN DREAMER by Steven Millhauser. Random House Vintage Classics, 293pgs.

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