Train Dreams
A Novella
by Denis Johnson
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appears in Introverts and Fiction.
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 centuryan ordinary man in extraordinary times. Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainer struggles to make sense of this strange new world. A...
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appears in Introverts and Fiction.
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