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A New York Times Notable Book for One of The Economists Books of the Year One of NPRs Best Novels of Denis Johnsons Train Dreams is an epic in miniature one of his most evocative and poignant fictionsRobert 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 of his family Grainer struggles to make sense of this strange new world As his story unfolds we witness both his shocking personal defeats and the radical changes that transform America in his lifetime Suffused with the history and landscapes of the American West-its otherworldly flora and fauna its rugged loggers and bridge builders-the new novella by the National Book Award-winning author of Tree of Smoke captures the disappearance of a distinctly American way of life.
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Denis Hale Johnson (born July 1, 1949) is an American writer best known for his short story collection Jesus' Son (1992) and his novel Tree of Smoke (2007) , which won the National Book Award for Fiction. He also writes plays, poetry and non-fiction. Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
