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Martin Dressler : the tale of an American dreamer / Steven Millhauser.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Vintage Books, c1997.Edition: 1st Vintage Contemporaries edDescription: viii, 293 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0679781277
  • 9780679781271
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Contents:
Dressler's cigars and tobacco -- Charley Stratemeyer -- West Brighton -- The Vanderlyn Hotel -- Room 411 -- A business venture -- Little Alice Bell -- Advancement -- The paradise musée -- Caroline and Emmeline Vernon -- A Sunday afternoon stroll -- The radiator -- Intimacies -- The eighth day of the week -- Mr. Westerhoven makes a proposal -- Business and pleasure -- Courtship -- The blue velvet box -- Wedding night -- The fate of the Vanderlyn -- New life -- Rudolf Arling -- Harwinton -- The Dressler -- A fifth chair at dinner -- The new Dressler -- Caroline's way -- The grand cosmo.
Summary: 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.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction Millhaus Steven Checked out 07/10/2024 33111007036557
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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 Review

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, a sense of doom builds piece-by-hypnotic piece until this mesmerizing journey reaches its bitter-sweet conclusion.

Dressler's cigars and tobacco -- Charley Stratemeyer -- West Brighton -- The Vanderlyn Hotel -- Room 411 -- A business venture -- Little Alice Bell -- Advancement -- The paradise musée -- Caroline and Emmeline Vernon -- A Sunday afternoon stroll -- The radiator -- Intimacies -- The eighth day of the week -- Mr. Westerhoven makes a proposal -- Business and pleasure -- Courtship -- The blue velvet box -- Wedding night -- The fate of the Vanderlyn -- New life -- Rudolf Arling -- Harwinton -- The Dressler -- A fifth chair at dinner -- The new Dressler -- Caroline's way -- The grand cosmo.

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.

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