{"product_id":"9781803510224","title":"Train Dreams","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Denis Johnson\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 10 April 2025 by GRANTA BOOKS in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Best of Granta' series.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePaperback | 128 pages\u003cbr\u003e197 x 129 x 10mm | 98g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, NOMINATED FOR FOUR ACADEMY AWARDS - INCLUDING BEST PICTUREAn epic miniature of one man's life journey through the American West at the turn of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLife 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRich and muscular, sweeping and incantatory, Train Dreams is an epic in miniature: an elegy to the ravaged beauty of a lost landscape, and a haunting indictment of the cost of our modern way of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A work of extraordinary power and consummate skill... A masterpiece' Observer'A masterpiece... One of the best prose writers in our time' Michael Ondaatje'I don't think there is a sentence in the book that isn't perfectly made' Ann Patchett, New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Denis Johnson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57548601884997,"sku":"9781803510224","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/3721\/6069\/files\/9781803510224.jpg?v=1774886678","url":"https:\/\/stripyduckbookshopcafe.co.uk\/products\/9781803510224","provider":"The Stripy Duck Bookshop Café","version":"1.0","type":"link"}