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Set in the remote forests of the Pacific Northwest in the early 1900s, “Train Dreams” follows Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton) ...
Denis Johnson’s gem of a story: 'Train Dreams' At dusk, alone in the woods of the Idaho Panhandle, not far from Canada, Robert Grainier would hear the howls of wolves and join them, howling ...
Denis Johnson’s “Train Dreams” is a little jewel. Winner of the 2007 National Book Award for the sprawling “Tree of Smoke,” Johnson here examines the life of one man from 1886 to 1968.
Train Dreams. A Novella. Denis Johnson. Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 116 pp., $18. It’s a curious thing about Denis Johnson: For a writer I admire as much as (if not more than) any of his ...
Visually, the film is a knockout. Shot by cinematographer Adolpho Veloso and scored by Grammy winner and Oscar nominee Bryce ...