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Train dreams

Train dreams

by Denis Johnson

Railroad construction workersFictionReading Level-Grade 7Reading Level-Grade 9Reading Level-Grade 8
3.5
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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

Themes & subjects

Railroad construction workersFictionReading Level-Grade 7Reading Level-Grade 9Reading Level-Grade 8Reading Level-Grade 11

Setting

West (U.S.)West United States20th century

About the author

Denis Johnson
Denis Johnson

1 July 1949 – 24 May 2017

Author

Denis Johnson

Pages

116

Read time

≈ 3h

Editions

9

Languages

English, Portuguese

Publisher

Granta Books

ISBN

9789896412913

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