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Steven Millhauser's new novel tells the story of a young entrepreneur in late-nineteenth-century New York City whose ambition to make concrete an elusive dream leads to a fabulous creation that houses the imagination itself.Young Martin Dressler begins his career as a 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. His visions grow more and more fantastical as he plans his ultimate creation: the Grand Cosmo, in which he attempts to capture the entire world and its dreams. Accompanied on this journey by two sisters - one a dreamlike shadow, the other a worldly business partner - and 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. The Grand Cosmo is his triumph and his undoing, the bold conclusion to this biography of the twentieth-century notion of progress, this mesmerizing journey into the heart of an American dreamer reaches its bitter-sweet conclusion. "Mr Millhauser possesses a bountiful imagination, and an ability to catch his perceptions in a bright butterfly net of prose." - The New York Ti

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Author

Steven Millhauser

Publisher

Little, Brown Book Group Limited

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781472151094

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Fiction