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Train Dreams is a novella by Denis Johnson.It was published on August 30, 2011, by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. [2] It was originally published, in slightly different form, in the Summer 2002 issue of The Paris Review.
Jan 1, 2002 · Denis Johnson's Train Dreams is an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fictions. It is the story of Robert Grainier, 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.
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May 22, 2012 · Train Dreams: A Novella. Paperback – May 22, 2012. From the National Book Award-winning author Denis Johnson (Tree of Smoke) comes Train Dreams, an epic in miniature, and one of Johnson's most evocative works of fiction. Suffused with the history and landscapes of the American West―its otherworldly flora and fauna, its rugged loggers and ...
Sep 16, 2011 · I first read Denis Johnson’s novella “Train Dreams” in a bright orange 2002 issue of The Paris Review and felt that old thrill of discovery. The story concerns the life of Robert Grainier, a ...
May 22, 2012 · Train Dreams: A Novella. Paperback – May 22 2012. From the National Book Award-winning author Denis Johnson (Tree of Smoke) comes Train Dreams, an epic in miniature, and one of Johnson's most evocative works of fiction. Suffused with the history and landscapes of the American West―its otherworldly flora and fauna, its rugged loggers and ...
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May 22, 2012 · Train Dreams is a small book of weighty ideas. It renders the story of America and our westward course of empire in the most beautiful and heartbreaking manner imaginable.” —Andrew Ervin, The Miami Herald “I first read Denis Johnson's Train Dreams in a bright orange 2002 issue of The Paris Review and felt
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Sep 6, 2012 · The power of Denis Johnson's "Train Dreams" will remind you of other durable works in the canon of American literature. The book's backwoods setting, the stoic philosophy of its characters, and several encounters with the Native American spirit world, all have sympathetic ties to Hemingway's early Nick Adams stories set in Michigan's Northern Woods.
