Train Dreams
by Denis Johnson
Taste attributes: dramahistoricalwesternslowheavyrealisticemotive & stirringhuman spirit/resilience/survivaltroubled leadsself destruction/implosion
Boxlist takeUnhurried and emotional: a serious novel. Best if you like patience over pace.
Pace: slow · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: heavy · Realism: balanced · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score
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3.5 / 5
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About This Book
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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- Author
- Denis Johnson
- Published
- 2011
- Pages
- 116
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- Open Library
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