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Original Title:	Train Dreams
ISBN:	1250007658 (ISBN13: 9781250007650)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Robert Grainier
Setting:	American West(United States)
Literary Awards:	Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Fiction (2012)

Train Dreams Paperback | Pages: 116 pages

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Title	:	Train Dreams
Author	:	Denis Johnson
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 116 pages
Published	:	May 22nd 2012 by Picador USA (first published 2002)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Novella. Novels. Westerns. Literary Fiction

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Denis Johnson's Train Dreams is an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fictions. It is the story of Robert Grainier, 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, this novella captures the disappearance of a distinctly American way of life.

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A solid story, sad and satisfying, one which might, initially, provoke feelings of déjà vu in those whove read A Prayer for the Dying. An American mountain man, stoic and self-sufficient, enjoys an all too brief period of love and intimacy before tragedy and loss impose, and hes left to fend for and only for himself. Johnsons gentle prose resists a stereotype, rendering the protagonist credible and admirable. The inevitable wolf-girl scene defies belief but situates the story in a mythic

This little book has been sitting on my to-read shelf for so long that I can't remember whose recommendation prompted me to buy it. I am very glad that I finally found the small amount of time needed to read it, as it is a beautiful and atmospheric miniature.The book's subject is Grainier, and it follows his isolated life in a remote and wild valley in the north of Idaho through a series of episodes that span his long lifetime. It is partly an elegy for the old west and partly a reflection on

I like novellas, they feel a lesser undertaking than settling into a novel in its full form. For me it also opens up options I might spurn if I thought I'd have to take on three hundred or more pages. I first picked up this thin book at at a local bookstore - I was attracted by a single sentence as I briefly flicked through it. I didn't read the blurb or otherwise pre-acquaint myself with the text and I didn't buy it at the time, but the sentence stayed with me and I later bought the Kindle

Early in this novella, but not in his chronological life, Robert Grainier feels obliged to help fellow workers grab a Chinese laborer, working in the Pacific Northwest, and throw him off a span of bridge into a gorge below. They are ultimately unsuccessful, but Death is not denied otherwise in the life of Grainier. In fact, everyone he meets seems to have a sorry end.The story of this man (this Country?) is told in sepia-toned, non-linear vignettes. His Asian adventure (if you want to read

I hardly know anymore where reading ends and real life begins - the border between the two is getting hazier and hazier.Take Thursday evening, for example. I was on a train finishing a book called A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing. A powerful book, such a powerful book that when Id finished, I needed a distraction so I took out my iPad to see if I had a book on the ereader app to help me pass the rest of the journey pleasantly. Train Dreams seemed perfect at a little over a hundred pages, and so it

If anyone can be accused of writing fiction way too closely tailored to the tastes of prizegivers, it's Philip Roth. And Jonathan Franzen.And John Updike.Okay, a lot of writers. But let's add Denis Johnson to that list, which is a damn shame because it wasn't always this way. Jesus' Son and Angels are both great fucking books, visceral and ghostly at the same time. But then something happened, and I'm not sure what, but Johnson became this sudden chronicle of the American mythology. Okay, fine,

I'm not sure what to think of this one. This short novella tells a long tale in a sparse and emotionless way. Some segments were interesting, some were not.Robert Granier is a loner throughout his life. He doesn't seem to be emotional in any way; he goes with the flow. He comes from nowhere; he doesn't know his parents or birth place. It makes for an unemotional story and gives it an aloof feel. The train is always in the background. I like trains, so this is comforting, in its way. I'm not sure