Martin Dressler

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Fiction/Literature
A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD F I N A LIST
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
"[Millhauser] tells an engaging story and brings turn-of-the-century Manhattan to life with precision and attention. . . .
Well worth the long wait since Edwin MullhouseV — Washington Post Book World
Steven Millhauser's eagerly awaited new novel is set in late-nineteenth-century New York City, when new buildings were bursting from the bedrock of Manhattan every day and you might have met an inventor or entrepreneur on any street corner. One such entrepreneur is Martin Dressier, a cigar maker's son, a young man who has the audacity to make his dreams come true and the ability to do so on such a grand scale that other people will want to dream them too—for a little while.
We watch as the young Martin makes the ascent from a hotel bellhop to a builder of hotels of his own. We witness his strange enchantment by two sisters, one of whom becomes his companion and business partner, the... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Fiction/Literature
A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD F I N A LIST
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
"[Millhauser] tells an engaging story and brings turn-of-the-century Manhattan to life with precision and attention. . . .
Well worth the long wait since Edwin MullhouseV — Washington Post Book World
Steven Millhauser's eagerly awaited new novel is set in late-nineteenth-century New York City, when new buildings were bursting from the bedrock of Manhattan every day and you might have met an inventor or entrepreneur on any street corner. One such entrepreneur is Martin Dressier, a cigar maker's son, a young man who has the audacity to make his dreams come true and the ability to do so on such a grand scale that other people will want to dream them too—for a little while.
We watch as the young Martin makes the ascent from a hotel bellhop to a builder of hotels of his own. We witness his strange enchantment by two sisters, one of whom becomes his companion and business partner, the other his ghostly, elusive bride. And when Martin sets out to build the Grand Cosmo, a creation so vast that it will rival the world itself, 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 th emselves magnificently dreamlike.
"An altogether disarming novel—a charm a wonderful thing to read." — Village Voice Literary Supplement Vissza