Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer

Vintage, New York, 1996. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. Third impression . Size: Small Octavo. 293 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Edges browned slightly. This book has been read and has marks or some creasing but remains in excellent condition.. The book is available and will be PACKAGED professionally, DISPATCHED promptly and a TRACKING NUMBER will be advised by Australia Post.. PULITZER PRIZE WINNER and 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 ReviewYoung 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. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; Historical; United States; 1900-1920; ISBN: 0679781277. ISBN/EAN: 9780679781271. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 10627. . 9780679781271