num_pages: 306
description: 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.
language: English
title: Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
publisher: Vintage