Martin Dressler : The Tale of an American Dreamer Author: Steven Millhauser
	Book Information Publisher: Crown Book Type: Hardcover Members Wishing: 1 Rating: 1 ISBN-13: 9780517703199 - ISBN-10: 051770319X Publication Date: 4/23/1996 Pages: 293

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.