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"My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably."
- George Bernard Shaw
(1856 - 1950)
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ZIN Product Number: 10182709
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 293 pages
Publisher: Random House, Incorporated
ISBN: 0679781277
Release Date: Jan 11, 2001
Average Reader Review:    (Based on 6 reviews.)
| |  | | | From The Publisher
Young Martin Dressler begins his career as a 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. His visions grow more and more fantastical as he plans his ultimate creation: the Grand Cosmo, in which he attempts to capture the entire world and its dreams. Accompanied on this journey by two sisters - one a dreamlike shadow, the other a wordly business partner - Martin walks a haunted line between fantasy and reality, madness and ambition, art and industry. The Grand Cosmo is his triumph and his undoing, the bold conclusion to this biography of the twentieth-century notion of progress, this mesmerizing journey to the heart of the American dream.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 6 Average Rating:
A childs journey
-- B. Carter, May 7, 2002
Also Recommended: I also enjoyed A child called it by David Pelzer( great book ), and Of mice and men by John Steinbeck (all his books are great).
A childs journey
-- B. Carter, May 7, 2002
Also Recommended: I also enjoyed A child called it by David Pelzer( great book ), and Of mice and men by John Steinbeck (all his books are great).
barely held my interest
-- Kristy, April 29, 2002
barely held my interest
-- Kristy, April 29, 2002
All-in-all good book for dreamers
-- Megan, August 8, 2002
Also Recommended: The Dork of Cork-Chet Raymo In the Castle of the Flynns-Michael Raleigh
All-in-all good book for dreamers
-- Megan, August 8, 2002
Also Recommended: The Dork of Cork-Chet Raymo In the Castle of the Flynns-Michael Raleigh
| | | | The Reader's Catalog
Winner of this year's National Book Award. Millhauser's first novel, Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Times of an American Writer, 1943-1954, by Jeffrey Cartwright combined a crystalline Nabokovian evocation of the landscape of childhood with a sharp satire of the Romantic cult of the creative genius. In this new novel, a rags to riches story from the turn of the century, Millhauser invests historical detail with the vivid unreality of a fairy tale
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