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Train Dreams

Denis Johnson, 2011

Short read, about 116 pagesFinalist, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2012.

One labourer's life in the American West as railways and forests change around him.

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  1. What does Robert's life show about the West changing around him?
  2. How does such a short book manage to cover a whole life?
  3. Which moment in his ordinary days stayed with you most?

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