Martin Dressler : the tale of an American dreamer / Steven Millhauser.
In Steven Millhauser's new novel set in turn-of-the-century New York City, we watch young entrepreneur Martin Dressler like many of his day make the ascent from hotel bellhop to builder of hotels. This mesmerizing novel brings us face to face with the ambiguity beneath the optimism of the American dream with a swiftness and intensity that are in themselves magnificently dreamlike.
Record details
- ISBN: 0679781277
- ISBN: 9780679781271
- Physical Description: viii, 293 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: First Vintage Contemporaries edition.
- Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 1997.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | Dressler's cigars and tobacco -- Charley Stratemeyer -- West Brighton -- Vanderlyn Hotel -- Room 411 -- A business venture -- Little Alice Bell -- Advancement -- Paradise musée -- Caroline and Emmeline Vernon -- A Sunday afternoon stroll -- Radiator -- Intimacies -- Eighth day of the week -- Mr. Westerhoven makes a proposal -- Business and pleasure -- Courtship -- Blue velvet box -- Wedding night -- Fate of the Vanderlyn -- New life -- Rudolf Arling -- Harwinton -- Dressler -- A fifth chair at dinner -- New Dressler -- Caroline's way -- Grand cosmo. |
Awards Note: | Pulitzer Prize, 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1997. |
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Subject: | Businesspeople > New York (State) > New York > Fiction. |
Genre: | Historical fiction. Miscellaneous fiction. |
Available copies
- 2 of 2 copies available at Evergreen Indiana.
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- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Jefferson Co PL - Madison Main Branch | AWARD PUL 1997 (Text) | 39391006756967 | Award - Fic | Available | - |
Whiting PL - Whiting | HFIC MIL (Text) | 51735011193363 | Adult department | Available | - |
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- Baker & Taylor
Tells the story of Martin Dressler's rise from bellhop to builder of hotels and his plans to build the Grand Cosmo - Baker & Taylor
A young entrepreneur in late-nineteenth-century New York City, Martin Dressler rises from assistant in his father's cigar store as an elusive dream and his love for two sisters comes to fruition in the Grand Cosmo, an extravagant luxury hotel. Reprint. 17,500 first printing. - Random House, Inc.
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.
âThis wonderful, wonder-full book is a fable and phantasmagoria of the sources of our century.â âThe New York Times Book Review
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, a sense of doom builds piece-by-hypnotic piece until this mesmerizing journey reaches its bitter-sweet conclusion. - Random House, Inc.
The questions, discussion topics, and author biography that follow are intended to enhance your group's reading of Steven Millhauser's Martin Dressler . We hope they will enrich your understanding of this spellbinding tale of genius and obsession, winner of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. - Random House, Inc.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Finalist
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.