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Book 2011

Train dreams

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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language
English
Published
2011
  • Railroad construction workers
  • Fiction
  • Fiction, historical, general
  • Fiction, historical
  • West (u.s.), fiction
  • History

Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams is an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fictions.

Robert Grainer is a day laborer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century—an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Buffeted by the loss