Robert Grainer is a day labourer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century-an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Shipped by train in 1893 unto the woods of the Idaho panhandle, he grows up, works on logging gangs, falls in love, and loses his wife and baby daughter to a particularly pernicious wildfire. Derailed by the loss of his family, Grainer struggles to make sense of this strange new world. As his story unfolds, we witness both his shocking personal defeats and the radical changes that transform America in his lifetime. Suffused with the history and landscapes of the American West Train Dreams captures the disappearance of a distinctly American way of life.
- ISBN10 0374281149
- ISBN13 9780374281144
- Publish Date 30 August 2011 (first published 4 March 2011)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Farrar Straus Giroux
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 116
- Language English