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In *Train Dreams*, Denis Johnson creates a lyrical portrait of Robert Grainer, a day laborer hauling freight across the American West at the dawn of the twentieth century. The novel tracks Grainer through the shifting landscape of railroad construction, examining the personal toll of progress and the looming seismic shifts in a rapidly industrializing nation.
First publish date: 2006
Genre: Historical Fiction/20th Century Historical Fiction
Authors: Denis Johnson
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