Martin dressler by steven millhauser new yorker
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Steven millhauser interview In “Martin Dressler,” the title character, a nineteenth-century cigar-maker turned entrepreneur and hotelier, gets carried away and builds a hotel, the Grand Cosmo, so vast that, not unlike a.
This is the life Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer is a novel by Steven Millhauser. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction [1] and was a finalist for the National Book Award. [2] It follows the exploits of Martin Dressler, a young, optimistic entrepreneur, in late nineteenth-century New York City. It vividly evokes its time and.
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Martin Dressler is the In Dressler's late s New York, the world is just starting to turn from the humble apartments and hotels to edifices that attempt to soar into the sky. The setting here is inseparable from the greater themes of Martin's pursuit of the American Dream and its notable shortcomings.
Martin Dressler: The Tale of 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.
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