Johnson, Denis, 1949-2017.

Train dreams / Denis Johnson. - 1st ed. - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. - 116 p. ; 20 cm.

"This novella was originally published, in slightly different form, in the Paris Review, 2002"--T.p. verso.

Presents the story of early twentieth-century day laborer Robert Grainer, who endures the harrowing loss of his family while struggling for survival in the American West against a backdrop of radical historical changes.

9780374281144 (cloth : alk. paper) 0374281149 (cloth : alk. paper)

2011007505


Railroad construction workers--United States--Fiction.


Historical fiction.

PS3560.O3745 / T73 2011

813.54 JOH 2011