Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
By: Steven Millhauser
3.56
Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition
Young Martin Dressler begins his career as an industrious helper in his father's cigar store. In th…
Want to Read $ 4.99"Martin thought of the iron El trestles winding and stretching across the city, of department store windows and hotel lobbies, of electric elevators and street-car ads, of the city pressing its way north on both sides of the great park, of dynamos and electric lights, of ten-story hotels, of the old iron tower near the depot at West Brighton with its two steam-driven elevators rising and falling in the sky--and in his blood he felt a surge of restlessness, as if he were a steam train spewing fiery coal smoke into the black night sky as he roared along a trembling El track, high above the dark storefronts, the gaslit saloons, the red-lit doorways, the cheap beer dives, the dance halls, the gambling joints, the face in the doorway, the sudden cry in the night."-Steven Millhauser, Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
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1. The Fixer
By: Bernard Malamud , Jonathan Safran Foer
3.98
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
A classic that won Malamud both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. The Fixer (1966)… read more
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"Where to look if you've lost your mind?"-Bernard Malamud, The Fixer
"In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams."-Bernard Malamud, The Fixer
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2. The Magnificent Ambersons (The Growth Trilogy, #2)
By: Booth Tarkington
3.76
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published in 1918, The Magnificent Ambersonschronicl… read more
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3. Rabbit at Rest (Rabbit Angstrom #4)
By: John Updike
4.26
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
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4. Foreign Affairs
By: Alison Lurie
4.27
Format: 637 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Virginia Miner, a fifty-something, unmarried tenured professor, is in … read more
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5. Independence Day
By: Richard Ford
3.51
Format: 178 pages,
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6. The Known World
By: Edward P. Jones
4.33
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
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7. The Reivers
By: William Faulkner
4.21
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
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8. Alice Adams
By: Booth Tarkington
3.71
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Alice Adams, the daughter of middle-class parents, wants desperately to belong with the people of "… read more
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9. The Hours
By: None , Michael Cunningham
4.16
Format: None pages, Paperback
Passionate, profound, and deeply moving, "The Hours" is the story of three women: Clarissa Vaughan,… read more
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10. Breathing Lessons
By: Anne Tyler
3.70
Format: None pages, Paperback
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11. Rabbit Is Rich (Rabbit Angstrom, #3)
By: John Updike
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
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12. The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
By: Oscar Hijuelos
3.84
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
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13. The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
By: Robert Lewis Taylor
4.22
Format: 129 pages, Paperback
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14. A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
By: Robert Olen Butler
3.68
Format: None pages,
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15. A Summons to Memphis
By: Peter Taylor
4.04
Format: 431 pages, Paperback
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16. Now in November
By: Nancy Hoffman , Josephine Winslow Johnson
3.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
Brilliant, evocative, poetic, savage, this Pulitzer Prize-winning first novel (1934) written when J… read more
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17. The Stone Diaries
By: Carol Shields
3.89
Format: 361 pages, Paperback
The Stone Diaries is one ordinary woman's story of her journey through life. Born in 1905, Daisy St… read more
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18. Elbow Room
By: James Alan McPherson
3.37
Format: 414 pages,
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19. Ironweed
By: William Kennedy
3.68
Format: 336 pages,
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20. American Pastoral
By: Philip Roth
3.94
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
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21. Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
By: Steven Millhauser
3.56
Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition
Young Martin Dressler begins his career as an industrious helper in his father's cigar store. In th… read more
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