Martin Dressler
The Tale of an American Dreamer
Edición de la obra Martin Dressler
| Autor | Steven Millhauser |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Paw Prints 2008-06-26 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2008-06-26 |
| ISBN-13 | 9781439500484 |
| ISBN-10 | 1439500487 |
| Número de Cutter | M653m |
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.