'A masterpiece... one of the best prose writers in our time' Michael Ondaatje 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 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. Life 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. Rich 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. 'A work of extraordinary power
and consummate skill... A masterpiece' Observer 'I don't think there is a sentence in the
book that isn't perfectly made' Ann Patchett New York Times
