Train Dreams

Uniting sorrow and light, like an ancient psalm, a book by Denis Johnson—an acclaimed classic of contemporary American literature (1949–2017)—tells the story of Robert Grainier, a reluctant recluse whose life, spanning almost two-thirds of the twentieth century, unfolded among the hills, rivers, and railroad tracks of North Idaho. This is a story about a world in which, despite the suffering overflowing it, otherworldly beauty keeps breaking through: to grasp it, to capture it, to express it in words is beyond the main character—only someone free from thoughts and memories, from anxiety and hope, from speech, from language itself, can testify to it. Such could be a dream that once appeared to a train—if trains were able to dream.
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