Vintage, 1997, Medium Trade Paperback, Book Condition: Very Good, Reprint
Medium Trade Paperback. 293 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Vintage, USA, 1997. Reprint. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have light creasing. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are reasonably tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: 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. *** Quantity Available: 2. Category: Fiction; Historical; ISBN: 0679781277. ISBN/EAN: 9780679781271. Inventory No: 16080225. *** FREE tracked shipping for all orders within Australia ***
Medium Trade Paperback. 293 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Vintage, USA, 1997. Reprint. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have light creasing. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are reasonably tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: 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. *** Quantity Available: 2. Category: Fiction; Historical; ISBN: 0679781277. ISBN/EAN: 9780679781271. Inventory No: 16080225. *** FREE tracked shipping for all orders within Australia ***