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Young Martin Dressler begins his career as an industrious helper in his fathers 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.
 
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"MARTIN DRESSLER": AMERICAN DREAMER'S ULTIMATE EMPTINESS

Date of Review:  Jan 13, 2009
The Bottom Line: The success and ambition of Martin Dressler provide an important parable for these times.
Review: "Martin Dressler:  The Tale of an American Dreamer" is a book that must be read on at least two levels.  The basic story concerns a young man's pursuit of the American Dream of succeeding through hard work.  The "American Dream" was a beacon to many...
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Questioning the Dream

Date of Review:  Dec 15, 1999
Review: Millhauser's main character, Martin Dressler, parallels Ellison's "invisible man" in his pursuit of a dream that is not his own. He follows the path created for him, paved by rhetoric of success and happiness, and finds himself in a cycle of...
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MD: An Intricate Parable

Date of Review:  Jan 5, 2000
Review: Some books leave an impression; others leave a permanent residue, not easily wiped away. 'Martin Dressler', like a dream, inhabits the mind, taking up residence in the subconscious and expanding through one's head like a translucent haze. The book...
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Authors Steven Millhauser
Fiction Genre Unknown
Fiction Subgenre Unknown
Awards 1997 Pulitzer Prize

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  Yardley, Jonathan, Washington Post Book World: "As should be self-evident, Millhauser has taken on big themes in 'Martin Dressler'. These include not merely the American longing for illusion and escape, but also the pitfalls of great ambition and the rise and fall of the modern city. In embracing these themes it is therefore a transparently American novel, and a most convincing one, and well worth the long wait since 'Edwin Mullhouse'."

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  Format: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books (April 01, 1997)
Measurements: 8.25"(h) x 5.25"(w) x 0.75"(d), 0.55 lbs.
ISBN: 9780679781271

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  There once lived a man named Martin Dressler, a shopkeeper's son, who rose from modest beginnings to a height of dreamlike good fortune.
 
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