Purchase

Amazon

Barnes & Noble

Books-A-Million

Indie BookShop

Add to Wish List

Also by Denis Johnson:

Train Dreams, September 2011
Hardcover
Tree of Smoke, September 2007
Hardcover
Fiskadoro, March 2003
Paperback
Shoppers, June 2002
Paperback
Angels, May 2002
Paperback
Seek, March 2002
Paperback
Resuscitation of a Hanged Man, July 2001
Paperback
The Name of the World, May 2001
Paperback
Already Dead, June 1998
Paperback
The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly, June 1996
Paperback
The Stars at Noon, May 1995
Paperback
Jesus' Son: Stories, December 1993
Paperback

TRAIN DREAMS
By: Denis Johnson

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
September 2011
On Sale: August 30, 2011
128 pages
ISBN: 0374281149
EAN: 9780374281144
Hardcover
Add to Wish List

Fiction

A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 One of The Economist’s 2011 Books of the Year One of NPR’s 10 Best Novels of 2011

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 of his family, Grainer struggles to make sense of this strange new world. As his story unfolds, we witness both his shocking personal defeats and the radical changes that transform America in his lifetime.

Suffused with the history and landscapes of the American West—its otherworldly flora and fauna, its rugged loggers and bridge builders—the new novella by the National Book Award-winning author of Tree of Smoke captures the disappearance of a distinctly American way of life.

Media Buzz

Morning Edition - April 17, 2012