Train Dreams
by Denis Johnson · 2011
Buy on AmazonDenis 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
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"our friend Michael Cunningham, who was on the jury and therefore plowed through hundreds of books, recommends “Train Dreams,” by Denis Johnson, very highly."
By the Book: Hugh Dancy · nytimes.com