Short Story· 2011· Literary

Train Dreams

by Denis Johnson

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Train Dreams

Robert Grainier, a day labourer on the railroads and in the forests of the Idaho panhandle in the early twentieth century, loses his wife and daughter in a wildfire and lives on alone in the wilderness as the West changes around him.