Train Dreams

by Denis Johnson · first published 2011

Train Dreams is a novella by Denis Johnson. It was published on August 30, 2011, by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. It was originally published, in slightly different form, in the Summer 2002 issue of The Paris Review. The novella details the life of Robert Grainier, an American railroad laborer, who lives the life of a hermit until he marries and has a daughter, only to lose both wife and child in a forest fire, and sink into isolation again.

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Genre:

Historical fiction

Original language:

English

Reader rating:

★ 3.5 / 5 (2 on Open Library)

Year page:

2011