Book
Train Dreams
- Author: Denis Johnson
- Year: 2021
- Pages: 128
Readers on perLibre: 5
Now a major motion picture, nominated for four academy awards - including best picture an epic miniature of one man's life journey through the american west at the turn of the twentieth century. Robert grainier is a day labourer in the american west, felling the trees that feed the railways. It is the start of the twentieth century, and the world is changing at a rapid pace. Life is fragile in the wilds of the frontier; disease and forest fires are rife. Buffeted by the loss of his family, grainier journeys, struggling to make sense of the bewildering changes transforming the nation.
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