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Young Martin Dressler begins his career as a 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. His visions grow more and more fantastical as he plans his ultimate creation: the Grand Cosmo, in which he attempts to capture the entire world and its dreams. Accompanied on this journey by two sisters - one a dreamlike shadow, the other a wordly business partner - Martin walks a haunted line between fantasy and reality, madness and ambition, art and industry. The Grand Cosmo is his triumph and his undoing, the bold conclusion to this biography of the twentieth-century notion of progress, this mesmerizing journey to the heart of the American dream.
Nákup knihy
Martin Dressler, Steven Millhauser
- Jazyk
- Rok vydání
- 1996
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- Titul
- Martin Dressler
- Podtitul
- The Tale of an American Dreamer
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autoři
- Steven Millhauser
- Vydavatel
- Crown Publishers Inc.
- Rok vydání
- 1996
- Vazba
- pevná
- Počet stran
- 293
- ISBN10
- 051770319X
- ISBN13
- 9780517703199
- Série
- Původní název
- Martin Dressler
- Hodnocení
- 3,5 z 5
- Anotace
- Young Martin Dressler begins his career as a 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. His visions grow more and more fantastical as he plans his ultimate creation: the Grand Cosmo, in which he attempts to capture the entire world and its dreams. Accompanied on this journey by two sisters - one a dreamlike shadow, the other a wordly business partner - Martin walks a haunted line between fantasy and reality, madness and ambition, art and industry. The Grand Cosmo is his triumph and his undoing, the bold conclusion to this biography of the twentieth-century notion of progress, this mesmerizing journey to the heart of the American dream.