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| Original Title: | Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer |
| ISBN: | 0679781277 (ISBN13: 9780679781271) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1997), National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1996) |
Steven Millhauser
Paperback | Pages: 293 pages Rating: 3.57 | 9152 Users | 528 Reviews
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| Title | : | Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer |
| Author | : | Steven Millhauser |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 293 pages |
| Published | : | March 25th 1997 by Vintage (first published March 25th 1996) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction |
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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.Rating Appertaining To Books Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
Ratings: 3.57 From 9152 Users | 528 ReviewsWrite-Up Appertaining To Books Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
This book... no good. Once again I was lured by a Pulitzer Prize sticker that in the end left me wondering who exactly votes for these novels.The description of New York City at the boom of its birth (late 1800s) was interesting but that's about it. First, the story bothered me. Martin spends too much time trying to out-do his last feat. He also ends up marrying the wrong girl, which is very frustrating. Second, his constant description of Caroline's hair pulled back tight against her head wasYoung Martin, the son of a tobacconist, has big ambitions. In a rapid rise he goes from bus boy to buying the hotel. He then continues to build bigger and better. He eventually realizes he can't build a better world with his vision alone.
I was underwhelmed by Martin Dressler. I felt his character was one-dimensional and was not enamoured with either Caroline or Emma. The descriptions of Manhattan and Brooklyn in the late 19th and early 20th century are certainly interesting and this is what saved the book for this reviewer from a 2* rating. I felt like slapping the hapless Martin around for his blindness to love which is fine but the author kept returning to this theme a painful number of times that I felt he was beating me over
I very much enjoyed this story of a poor boy who becomes a hotel entrepreneur in turn of the century New York, who dreams of a marvelous place where vistors can enter the building and experience otherworldly wonders. Like most fictional dreamers, he's ahead of his time, and his dream can't survive in his world.Martin's fantasy of a place you can visit that takes you with a few easy steps from the world as you know it to any number of places around the world, under the sea, or in the heavens, was
An American DreamerSteven Millhausers 1996 novel, Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer" is a fable about the allure and limitations of the American dream. Set in a rapidly-developing New York City at the beginning of the Twentieth Century and recounted in an oracular style by an omniscient narrative voice, the book tells the story of "a man named Martin Dressler, a shopkeeper's son, who rose from modest beginnings to a height of dreamlike good fortune." As the story develops Martin
This one caught me by surprise . . . Though it's not an action-packed page-turner, I was completely absorbed by this book. Just read the author's description of New York City circa 1894:. . . Martin lead the Vernon women down clattering station stairways to look at details: strips of sun and shadow rippling across a cabhorse's back under a curving El track, old steel rails glinting in the cobblestones. He bought them bags of hot peanuts from a peanut wagon with a steam whistle. He showed them
I was underwhelmed by Martin Dressler. I felt his character was one-dimensional and was not enamoured with either Caroline or Emma. The descriptions of Manhattan and Brooklyn in the late 19th and early 20th century are certainly interesting and this is what saved the book for this reviewer from a 2* rating. I felt like slapping the hapless Martin around for his blindness to love which is fine but the author kept returning to this theme a painful number of times that I felt he was beating me over
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