num_pages: 293
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
titlecomplete: Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
genres: American, Classics, New York, Historical, Fantasy, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literature, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 10023
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Vintage