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1. • • Denis Johnson's Train Dreams 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 at the start of the twentieth century---an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainer struggles to make sense of this strange new world.
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   What is Train Dreams by Denis Johnson about?

   • Train Dreams by Denis Johnson tells the life story of a railroad worker from the early 20th century, and, while short, it's a rich dramatic rendition of a man's life. MICHELE NORRIS, host: The American West is the first half of the 20th century is the setting for a new short novel from writer Denis Johnson.

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   What did Denis Johnson's 'train dreams' tell us about American independence?

   • The story shows something of American growth and of how the development of our country was intertwined with independence, sacrifice, loneliness, guilt and pain in language that is reflective and poetic. I enjoyed thinking about American independence on this Fourth of July by reading and writing about Denis Johnson's "Train Dreams".

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   Who wrote 'Train Dreams' by Denis Johnson?

   • Most people who read this beautifully made word-engraving on the page will feel Robert Granier who dies in the 1960s living on in their minds. NORRIS: "Train Dreams" is by Denis Johnson. Alan Cheuse teaches writing at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Copyright © 2011 NPR. All rights reserved.

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   • "Train Dreams" is a moving book about an American life and about an American place. The story shows something of American growth and of how the development of our country was intertwined with independence, sacrifice, loneliness, guilt and pain in language that is reflective and poetic.

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   • Critics have widely discerned the influence of 20th Century American novelists in Train Dreams, most strikingly that of Ernest Hemingway, and in particular Johnson's use of the declarative sentence, a hallmark of Hemingway's style.

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   When was Train Dreams published?

   • Train Dreams was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux on August 30, 2011. It was originally published, in slightly different form, in the Summer 2002 issue of The Paris Review. The novella appeared at number 28 on The New York Times Hardcover Fiction best-sellers list on October 9, 2011.

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   Train Dreams is a novella by Denis Johnson. It was published on August 30, 2011, by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. [2] It was originally published, in slightly different form, in the Summer 2002 issue of The Paris Review. [3] [4]

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   Jan 1, 2002 · Denis Johnson's Train Dreams 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 at the start of the twentieth century---an ordinary man in extraordinary times.

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   Denis Johnson’s novella, Train Dreams, is a haunting and beautifully written tale of a man’s life in the early 20th century American West. The story follows Robert Grainier, a laborer on the railroad, as he navigates a world that is rapidly changing around him.

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   The novella Train Dreams, by American author Denis Johnson, was first published in the Paris Review in 2002. It was published as a book in 2011 and was a Pulitzer Prize Finalist. The story follows an orphan living in Idaho from 1890 to 1960.

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   Sep 16, 2011 · A powerful American story of backwoods tragedy and isolation unfolds in Denis Johnson’s novella.

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   Sep 19, 2011 · Train Dreams by Denis Johnson tells the life story of a railroad worker from the early 20th century, and, while short, it's a rich dramatic rendition of a man's life.

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    Aug 25, 2011 · Denis Johnson's striking new short novel about life, fate and death in the early 20th-century American mountain West, leaves that impression — plain yet stark in its depiction of an ordinary...