Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Finalist

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 03/25/1997
ISBN: 9780679781271
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.60d

Review Citations: New York Times 06/22/1997 pg. 32
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 01/01/1997 pg. 97