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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) |
Denis Johnson
Paperback | Pages: 116 pages Rating: 3.83 | 16630 Users | 1959 Reviews
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| Title | : | Train Dreams |
| Author | : | Denis Johnson |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary 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.Rating Based On Books Train Dreams
Ratings: 3.83 From 16630 Users | 1959 ReviewsColumn Based On Books Train Dreams
A beautiful encapsulation of the life of an average man - haunting and expansive - a compassionate version of Babbitt.I refuse to stain this small perfect book with a long review. This short novel is a dream: the kind you dip into, just for a drowsy second, yet wake from to find youself still immersed in a great epic--wounded by its sorrow, giddy with its marvelsall visited upon you in the blink of an eye.The story of Robert Grainier, a laborer in the Great Northwest during the first third of the last century, is full of tragedy, tall tales, temporal dislocations, homespun humor, plain-speaking, and
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
Owing to the fact that I have read the semi-autobiographical short story collection Jesus' Son a few times (and you should absolutely do that), I had a wrong-headed assumption about the subject matter of this novella. Based partly on the title, I figured this would be a more modern take on the same territory in JS, of the grim realities and screwed up interpersonal dynamics of off the grid types, namely junkies and alcoholics who haven't done their taxes in a decade and smell like cigarettes,
Denis Johnson won an O. Henry prize for this novella of the old American West in 2003. It originally appeared in the Paris Review but is now reissued and bound in hardback with an apt cover arta painting by Regionalist Thomas Hart Benton called The Race. If you contemplate the painting for a while, you may feel the ghost of the books protagonist, Robert Grainier, as he, too, felt the ghosts and spirits of the dead.Robert Grainier is a man without a known beginningat least, he didnt know his
Train Dreams appears at first if it is on familiar territory: a short but sweeping third-person historical novel which grapples strongly with the American myth of the pioneer sensibility, the dramatic speed with which that remarkable nation arose around a startled populace. Robert Grainier it's main character is an itinerant labourer, building bridges and felling trees for the rapidly expanding railways of America in the early 20th century.He finds happiness with his wife and infant daughter,
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