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Train Dreams
Denis Johnson · Literary Fiction
47 Pulse Score
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historical fictioncoming of agetrauma recoverysurvival
historical fictioncoming of age
#173 All Time
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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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