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#3625 of 8,085 books · #571 in Historical Fiction

Shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2012).

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

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Publisher
Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verla
ISBN-13
9783499237706
Topics
American frontier lifeGrief and lossIndustrialization and change

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