Train Dreams, English edition - A Novella, Nominiert: Esquire Magazine Best Books of the Year, Nominiert: Pulitzer Prize - Finalist 2012
Verlag | Macmillan US |
Auflage | 2012 |
Seiten | 128 |
Format | 18 cm |
Gewicht | 90 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
ISBN-10 | 1250007658 |
EAN | 9781250007650 |
Bestell-Nr | 25000765UA |
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.
Kurzbeschreibung:
Denis Johnson's Train Dreams is an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fictions.
Klappentext:
A New York Times Notable Book
An Esquire Best Book of 2011
A New Yorker Favorite Book of 2011
A Los Angeles Times Favorite Book of 2011
Denis Johnson's Train Dreams is an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fictions. It is the story of Robert Grainier, a day laborer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century---an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Buffeted 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, this novella by the National Book Award--winning author of Tree of Smoke captures the disappearance of a distinctly American way of life.