Train Dreams
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
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verla
- Year
- 2006
- ISBN-13
- 9783499237706
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topics
- American frontier lifeGrief and lossIndustrialization and change
Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for FictionShortlistedMajor(2012)
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