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Publication

2011 - Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

29,000 words, Guess

Page Count

116 pages

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Classifications

  • DDC813/.54
  • LCCPS3560.O3745 T73 2011

Description

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

Description

Presents the story of early twentieth-century day laborer Robert Grainer, who endures the harrowing loss of his family while struggling for survival in the American West against a backdrop of radical historical changes.

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