Train Dreams

Train DreamsA 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 From the National Book Award winning author Denis Johnson (Tree of Smoke) comes Train Dreams, an epic in miniature, and one of Johnson's most evocative works of fiction. Suffused with the history and landscapes of the American Westits otherworldly flora and fauna, its rugged loggers and bridge buildersthis extraordinary novella

veteran investigative journalist Scott McGrath suspects otherwise

and the differences between the two” (Laura Pearson

“Suspenseful

to her public war with stand-up comedians over rape jokes

after the sport led to the destruction of her family four years earlier

Is it this life or the other that’s the dream

quietly furious pillhead whose Ambien ramblings and Xanaxed b*tcheries somehow wend their way through sad and funny and strange toward something genuinely profound

you’ll take a trip to be with us

When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel

the word for America

” —Anne Lamott

In this "captivating" crime novel (People)