01230cam a2200253 4500 1524255909 TxAuBib 20240826120000.0 161201s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781250007650 pbk. 1250007658 pbk. TxAuBib Johnson, Denis, 1949-2017, author. Train dreams / Denis Johnson. 1st Picador ed. New York : Picador, 2012. 116 pages ; 18 cm. "This novella was originally published, in slightly different form, in the Paris Review, 2002"--Title page verso. This 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. As his story unfolds, we witness both his shocking personal defeats and the radical changes that transform America in his lifetime. 20240826. Railroad construction workers United States Fiction. Historical fiction. YT4