Train Dreams

Name: Train Dreams
Author: Denis Johnson

by Denis Johnson

Railroad worker's life shaped by love and loss in American West

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Denis Johnson

American novelist and poet whose Jesus' Son is among the most celebrated story collections in American literature. Tree of Smoke won the National Book Award. His hallucinatory fiction of addiction, war, and spiritual crisis is unlike anything else in American letters.

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