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Martin Dressler : The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • 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.
Who reads Martin Dressler : The Tale of an American Dreamer?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Steven Millhauser
- Publisher
- New York: Vintage Books
- Published
- 1997
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780679781271
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Rating
- 3.57 / 5 (7,839 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Martin Dressler : the tale of an American dreamer (1999)
- مارتن دريسلر: حكاية حالم أمريكي [Arabic] (1996)
- Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer (Vintage Contemporaries) (1996)
- Edwin Mullhouse : the life and death of an American writer, 1943-1954, by Jeffrey Cartwright : a novel (2011)
- Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer (Vintage Contemporaries) (2010)
- Martin Dressler: The Tales Of An American Dreamer (2015)
- Little Kingdoms: Three Novellas (Vintage Contemporaries) (1993)
- Martin Dressler: The Tale Of An American Dreamer (vintage Contemporaries) (1997)
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