Train Dreams A Novella (Paperback)
| Author: Denis Johnson |
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: St Martins Pr
ISBN-10: 1250007658
ISBN-13: 9781250007650
Sku: 225909307
Publish Date: 5/22/2012
Pages:
128
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| Johnson''s book 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, who struggles to make sense of this strange new world. |
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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. |
Author Bio
Denis Johnson
Poet and novelist Denis Johnson received the Whiting Writers Award in 1986, and was also a recipient of the National Poetry Series Award.
Praise
"It's a love story, a hermit's story and a refashioning of age-old wolf-based folklore. . . . It's also a small masterpiece. You look up from the thing dazed, slightly changed."
- Anthony Doerr
09/18/2011
"It's a love story, a hermit's story and a refashioning of age-old wolf-based folklore. . . . It's also a small masterpiece. You look up from the thing dazed, slightly changed."
- Anthony Doerr
09/16/2011
"[A] gem of a story, set in rough times, in a tough terrain, and tenderly told."
- Bob Minzesheimer
09/11/2011
"[A] gem of a story, set in rough times, in a tough terrain, and tenderly told."
- Bob Minzesheimer
09/11/2011
"[Johnson] is a steady noticer of the natural world, and the prose follows his eye with frequent exhalations of beauty."
- James Wood
09/05/2011
"[Johnson] is a steady noticer of the natural world, and the prose follows his eye with frequent exhalations of beauty."
- James Wood
09/05/2011
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