Martin Dressler
Subtitle: the tale of an American dreamer
By: Steven Millhauser.
Edition: 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed.
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780679781271
Subjects: Businesspeople -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Dressler's cigars and tobacco; title: Charley Stratemeyer; title: West Brighton; title: The Vanderlyn Hotel; title: Room 411; title: A business venture; title: Little Alice Bell; title: Advancement; title: The paradise musée; title: Caroline and Emmeline Vernon; title: A Sunday afternoon stroll; title: The radiator; title: Intimacies; title: The eighth day of the week; title: Mr. Westerhoven makes a proposal; title: Business and pleasure; title: Courtship; title: The blue velvet box; title: Wedding night; title: The fate of the Vanderlyn; title: New life; title: Rudolf Arling; title: Harwinton; title: The Dressler; title: A fifth chair at dinner; title: The new Dressler; title: Caroline's way; title: The grand cosmo.