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| Author | Denis Johnson |
|---|---|
| Audio read by | Will Patton[1] |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Historical fiction |
| Set in | Idaho and Washington |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Publication date | August 30, 2011 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover and paperback) |
| Pages | 116 |
| Awards | O. Henry Award (2003) Aga Khan Prize for Fiction (2002) |
| ISBN | 978-0-374-28114-4 |
| OCLC | 705350825 |
| 813/.54 | |
| LC Class | PS3560.O3745 T73 2011 |
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]
The novella details the life of Robert Grainier, an American railroad laborer, who lives a life of hermitage until he marries and has a daughter, only to lose both wife and child in a forest fire, and sink into isolation again.
The novella won an O. Henry Award in 2003.[5] It also won the 2002 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction.[6] It was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, but no award was given that year.[7][8][9][10]
- ^ "Audio Book Review: Train Dreams by Denis Johnson, read by Will Patton". Publishers Weekly. November 28, 2011. Retrieved October 13, 2019.
- ^ Prabhaker, Sumanth (August 25, 2011). "Of Living Obsolete: Denis Johnson's Train Dreams". Slant Magazine. Retrieved October 14, 2019.
- ^ Johnson, Denis. "Train Dreams". The Paris Review. No. 162 (Summer 2002 ed.).
- ^ Wood 2011: "This novella, a version of which appeared in The Paris Review, in 2002, is indeed simpler and sparer than anything else Johnson has written."
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- ^ "Train Dreams, by Denis Johnson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved October 13, 2019.
- ^ Cunningham, Michael (July 9, 2012). "Letter from the Pulitzer Fiction Jury: What Really Happened This Year". The New Yorker. Retrieved October 13, 2019.
- ^ English 2019: "The work was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 2011, the year in which no prize was awarded."
- ^ Battersby 2015: "His novella, Train Dreams (2011)...is a masterpiece which should have won him the Pulitzer Prize but was short-listed in a year that the jury decided not to award it."