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Martin Dressler : the tale of an American dreamer / Steven Millhauser.
Van Pelt Library PS3563.I422 M37 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Millhauser, Steven.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Businesspeople.
- Businessmen.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Businessmen--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
- Businesspeople--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.
- New York (N.Y.).
- National Book Committee.
- Genre:
- Historical fiction.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 294 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Crown, 1996.
- Summary:
- The rise and fall of a man of imagination. From a helper in his grandfather's cigar store in 19th Century New York, he rises to become an entrepreneur of fabulous creations, culminating in a hotel with moonlight, waterfalls and a Grecian temple where maidens recite poetry around the clock. Facing ruin, he comes to the conclusion he dreamed the wrong dream. By the author of Edwin Mullhouse.
- Notes:
- Pulitzer Prize, 1997.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Nichols fund bookplate.
- Cited in:
- Fiction core collection. 16th ed., p. 615
- ISBN:
- 051770319X
- OCLC:
- 34150504
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