PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - The author of Voices in the Night reveals the mesmerizing journey of an American dreamer as he walks a haunted line between fantasy and reality, madness and ambition, art and industry.

"This wonderful, wonder-full book is a fable and phantasmagoria of the sources of our century." --The New York Times Book Review

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, a sense of doom builds piece-by-hypnotic piece until this mesmerizing journey reaches its bitter-sweet conclusion.

Author: Steven Millhauser
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 03/25/1997
Series: Vintage Contemporaries
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780679781271


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 06/22/1997 pg. 32
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 01/01/1997 pg. 97

About the Author
STEVEN MILLHAUSER is the author of numerous works of fiction, including Martin Dressler, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1997, and, most recently, Dangerous Laughter, a New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year. His work has been translated into fifteen languages, and his story "Eisenheim the Illusionist" was the basis of the 2006 film The Illusionist. He teaches at Skidmore College and lives in Saratoga Springs, New York.