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Train Dreams Hardcover - 2011

by Denis Johnson


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A New York Times Notable Book for 2011
One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year
One of NPR's 10 Best Novels of 2011

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 of his family, Grainer struggles to make sense of this strange new world. As his story unfolds, we witness both his shocking personal defeats and the radical changes that transform America in his lifetime.

Suffused with the history and landscapes of the American West-its otherworldly flora and fauna, its rugged loggers and bridge builders-the new novella by the National Book Award-winning author of Tree of Smoke captures the disappearance of a distinctly American way of life.

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  • Title Train Dreams
  • Author Denis Johnson
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 116
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar Straus Giroux, New York
  • Date 2011
  • ISBN 9780374281144 / 0374281149
  • Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.66 x 5.31 x 0.59 in (19.46 x 13.49 x 1.50 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Railroad construction workers - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011007505
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Denis Johnson (1949-2017) is the author of eight novels, one novella, one book of short stories, three collections of poetry, two collections of plays, and one book of reportage. His novel Tree of Smoke won the 2007 National Book Award.
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