Title: Train dreams
Description: 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
Subjects: Railroad construction workers, Fiction, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, historical, West (u.s.), fiction, History
Places: West (U.S.), West United States
Time periods: 20th century