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Martin Dressler, the tale of an American dreamer, Steven Millhauser

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Steven Millhauser's eagerly awaited new novel is set in late-nineteenth-century New York City, when new buildings were bursting from the bedrock of Manhattan every day and you might have an inventor or entrepreneur on any street corner. One such entrepreneur is Martin Dressler, a cigar maker's son, a young man who has the audacity to make his dreams come true and the ability to do so on such a grand scale that other people will want to dream them too -- for a little while. We watch as the young Martin makes the ascent from a hotel bellhop to a builder of hotels of his own. We witness his strange enchantment by two sisters, one of whom becomes his companion and business partner, the other his ghostly, elusive bride ..

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Tale of an American dreamer