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Train Dreams

By Denis Johnson
Series: Best of Granta
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An epic miniature of one man's life journey through the American West at the turn of the twentieth century.Robert Grainier is a day labourer in the American West, felling the trees that feed the railways. It is the start of the twentieth century, and the world... Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
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Train Dreams

INCLUDED IN THE BEST OF GRANTA SERIES: an epic miniature of one man's life journey through the American West at the turn of the twentieth century.

INCLUDED IN THE BEST OF GRANTA SERIES: an epic miniature of one man's life journey through the American West at the turn of the twentieth century.

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An epic miniature of one man's life journey through the American West at the turn of the twentieth century.

Robert Grainier is a day labourer in the American West, felling the trees that feed the railways. It is the start of the twentieth century, and the world is changing at a rapid pace.

Life is fragile in the wilds of the frontier; disease and forest fires are rife. Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainier journeys, struggling to make sense of the bewildering changes transforming the nation.

Rich and muscular, sweeping and incantatory, Train Dreams is an epic in miniature: an elegy to the ravaged beauty of a lost landscape, and a haunting indictment of the cost of our modern way of life.

Series: Best of Granta

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781803510224

Publisher: Granta Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 10 April 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Granta Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 128

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Denis Johnson Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Series: Best of Granta

About the Author

DENIS JOHNSON was the author of six novels, three collections of poetry, and one book of reportage. His novel Tree of Smoke was the 2007 winner of the National Book Award. He died in 2017.

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