Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Finalist
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.
- ISBN10 8489691215
- ISBN13 9788489691216
- Publish Date 1 December 1997 (first published 25 March 1997)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 19 August 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Andres Bello
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 331
- Language English