Train Dreams

<p><b>NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, NOMINATED FOR FOUR ACADEMY AWARDS - INCLUDING BEST PICTURE</b><br><br><b>An epic miniature of one man''s life journey through the American West at the turn of the twentieth century.</b><br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>Rich and muscular, sweeping and incantatory, <i>Train Dreams</i> 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.<br><br><b>''A work of extraordinary power and consummate skill... A masterpiece'' <i>Observer</i></b><br><br><b>''A masterpiece... One of the best prose writers in our time'' Michael Ondaatje<br></b><b><br>''I don''t think there is a sentence in the book that isn''t perfectly made'' Ann Patchett, <i>New York Times</i></b></p>