Train Dreams, Denis Johnson
There’s an argument to be made that Johnson is one of the ultimate American authors, with his stories of derelicts, veterans, fuckups, fuckheads, and men on the edge — and if you have only 100 pages to spare, Train Dreams is exactly where you should start, an abbreviated version of the rush and raw energy of Johnson’s prose and vision, with a man in the woods who may just be a stand-in for the American West.
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