Train dreams
Johnson's book is an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fictions. It is the story of Robert Grainier, a day laborer in the American West, who struggles to make sense of this strange new world.
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2011.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Summary: | Johnson's book is an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fictions. It is the story of Robert Grainier, a day laborer in the American West, who struggles to make sense of this strange new world. |
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| Physical Description: | 116 p. ; 20 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781250007650 1250007658 9780374281144 0374281149 |
| Author Notes: | Along with writing several volumes of poetry, Johnson wrote short stories for The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Paris Review, and Best American Short Stories. His novels included Angels, Jesus' Son, Resuscitation of a Hanged Man, Already Dead, Nobody Move, Train Dreams, and The Laughing Monsters. He won the National Book Award in 2007 for Tree of Smoke. He also received the Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts, the Robert Frost Award, and the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. He died of liver cancer on May 24, 2017 at the age of 67. (Bowker Author Biography) |
