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James Wood in The New Yorker rated Train Dreams "a severely lovely tale" and Eileen Battersby of The Irish Times declares that "Johnson's novella, Train Dreams, a daring lament to the American West, is a masterpiece which should have won him the Pulitzer Prize but was short-listed in a year that the jury decided not to award it." [19] [20]
At times, “Train Dreams” feels almost quilt-like in the way its pieces fit together, with certain sounds and images flickering briefly, almost subliminally, across our consciousness, often to ...
Train Dreams is a 2025 American drama film directed by Clint Bentley and starring Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones. It is an adaptation by Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar of the 2011 novella by Denis Johnson .
Denis Hale Johnson (July 1, 1949 – May 24, 2017) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and poet. He is perhaps best known for his debut short story collection, Jesus' Son (1992). His most successful novel, Tree of Smoke (2007), won the National Book Award for Fiction . [ 2 ]
Kerry Condon (“The Banshees of Inisherin”), William H. Macy (“Fargo,” “Shameless”) and Clifton Collins Jr. (“Jockey,” “Capote”) have joined ...
At the time of his casting in Train of Dreams, he was a 17-year-old resident of Montreal who had previously only been an extra. [4] In addition to his Genie Award nomination, he won the awards for Best Actor at the Chicago International Film Festival in 1987, [ 5 ] the Gijón International Film Festival in 1988, [ 6 ] and the International ...
Cuthbert (Chip) Hamilton Ellis FRSA [1] (29 June 1909 – 29 June 1987) was an English railway writer and painter. He was an Associate of the Institution of Locomotive Engineers and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Nicholo Niarchos in The New Yorker, while acknowledging Johnson's fine prose, considers it "a shame that the author is not more known for his verse": Johnson's magisterial Jesus' Son, is a series of vignettes about drug addiction and the white working class from a time before they were referred to as such. Few of the plaudits, however ...