Train dreams

Denis Johnson

About this book

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

Subjects

  • fiction
  • fiction, historical
  • fiction, historical, general
  • history
  • railroad construction workers
  • reading level-grade 10
  • reading level-grade 11
  • reading level-grade 12
  • reading level-grade 7
  • reading level-grade 8
  • reading level-grade 9
  • west (u.s.), fiction