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Cover of Train Dreams

Train Dreams

by Denis Johnson

2002 · adult

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Set in 1 place · 1 primary
Sense of Place
5/5
Description · Open Library (CC0)

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

Set in

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    Idaho Panhandle · United States
    Early 20th-century logging and railroad frontier
    ★ primary