Train Dreams
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Descripción editorial
Der Tagelöhner Robert Grainier, 1886 im Norden Amerikas geboren, muss im Laufe seines langen Lebens mit ansehen, wie sich die Welt um ihn herum verändert: Die Technik hält Einzug in den Alltag der Menschen und fordert ihre Opfer. Als Grainier seine Familie verliert, gerät seine Welt vollends aus den Fugen. Die Süddeutsche Zeitung lobte "Train Dreams" als eine Novelle des "klaren Traumlichts", als ein "Meisterstück".
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Readers eager for a fat follow-up to Tree of Smoke could be forgiven a modicum of skepticism at this tidy volume a reissue of a 2003 O. Henry Prize winning novella that originally appeared in the Paris Review but it would be a shame to pass up a chance to encounter the synthesis of Johnson's epic sensibilities rendered in miniature in the clipped tone of Jesus' Son. The story is a snapshot of early 20th-century America as railroad laborer Robert Granier toils along the rails that will connect the states and transform his itinerant way of life. Drinking in tent towns and spending summers in the wilds of Idaho, Granier misses the fire back home that leaves no trace of his wife and child. The years bring diminishing opportunities, strange encounters, and stranger dreams, but it's not until after participating in the miracle of flight and a life-changing encounter with a mythical monster that Granier realizes what he's been looking for. An ode to the vanished West that captures the splendor of the Rockies as much as the small human mysteries that pass through them, this svelte stand-alone has the virtue of being a gem in itself, and, for the uninitiated, a perfect introduction to Johnson.
