- Railroad construction workers, Fiction, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 9
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
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Grave, earnest, contemplative and prestige.
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- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Denis Johnson
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 116
- Publisher
- Granta Books, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Granta
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- Portuguese, English
- ISBN
- 9781847086624
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