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Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer - Softcover

Millhauser, Steven

 
9780753805428: Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0753805421 ISBN 13: 9780753805428
Verlag: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 1999

Inhaltsangabe

Martin Dressler is the son of cigar maker, born in late 19th century New York. As Martin approaches manhood, it is rapidly clear that his ambitions stretch far further than inheriting his father's shop, as he moves first to take a job in a hotel, then to open a restaurant, and rapidly ascends to become a builder of hotels of his own. He is a classic entrepreneur, a young man who has the audacity to make his dreams ' and the American Dream ' come true on the grandest possible scale. But when Martin sets out to build the Grand Cosmos, a hotel that rivals Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast in its scale, and aims to rival the world itself in its scope, this mesmerising novel finally exposes the ambiguity of the American dream and the perils and wonder of human ambition and human imagination.

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Verlag
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0753805421
ISBN 13 
9780753805428
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
352
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