Train Dreams
DENIS JOHNSON

Train Dreams by Denis Johnson 211 reviews (2011) (128p) Publisher's Weekly Best Books of 2011: Fiction New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Finalist Economist Books of the Year: Fiction The New Yorker: Favorite Books from 2011 - Fiction (23) NPR: The 10 Best Novels of 2011 - Maureen Corrigan

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Book Description

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 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—its otherworldly flora and fauna, its rugged loggers and bridge builders—the new novella by the National Book Award-winning author of Tree of Smoke captures the disappearance of a distinctly American way of life.

Other Award Winning Books by Denis Johnson

The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson 108 reviews (2018) (p) (NBCCA) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Laughing Monsters by Denis Johnson 116 reviews (2014) (240p) (Amazon Top100) (NYT100) (Amazon Top10Lit) (Time Top10) (TIME) (Amazon) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Tree of Smoke: A Novel by Denis Johnson 201 reviews (2007) (624p) (PP) (NBA) (NYTimes) (TIME) (Amazon) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Name of The World by Denis Johnson 36 reviews (2000) (144p) (PF) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

JESUS' SON: Stories by Denis Johnson 104 reviews (1993) (176p) (NYTimes) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Denis Johnson Award Stats

Major Prize* Nominations 5   Unique Books Nominated for a Major Prize* 4   Pulitzer Prize Wins 0   Pulitzer Prize Nominations 2 Tree of Smoke: A Novel · Train Dreams ·   National Book Critics Circle Award Wins 0   National Book Critics Circle Award Nominations 1 The Largesse of the Sea Maiden ·   National Book Award Wins 1 Tree of Smoke: A Novel ·   National Book Award Nominations 1 Tree of Smoke: A Novel ·   Man Booker Prize Wins 0   Man Booker Prize Nominations 0   PEN/Faulkner Award Wins 0   PEN/Faulkner Award Nominations 1 The Name of The World ·

*Major Prize = Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Award, Man Booker Prize, and PEN/Faulkner Award

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