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Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
Category: Fiction
An epic miniature of one man's life journey through the American West at the turn of the twentieth century. Robert Grainier is a day labourer, and has been for as long as he can remember. It is the start of the twentieth century and the world is changing at a rapid place. Adrift following the loss of th ...Show more
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
Category: Fiction
Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real American and finally as ...Show more
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
Category: Fiction
"Tree of Smoke" - the name given to a 'psy op' that might or might not be hypothetical and might or might not be officially sanctioned - is Denis Johnson's most gripping, visionary and ambitious work to date. Set in south-east Asia and the US, and spanning two decades, it ostensibly tells the story of S ...Show more