Johnson, Denis, 1949-
New York : Picador, 2012.
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Notes:

• This novella was originally published, in slightly different form, in the Paris Review, 2002 –T.p. verso.
• Presents the story of early twentieth-century day laborer Robert Grainer, who endures the harrowing loss of his family while struggling for survival in the American West against a backdrop of radical historical changes.
• Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Fiction, 2012

Subjects:

• Railroad construction workers — United States — Fiction.
• West (U.S.) — History — Fiction.
• Historical fiction. gsafd

Requested by Kurpiers, R.