RaveThe Cleveland Plain DealerThis musical little novella is set mostly in the 1920s, and in the logging camps and train-station towns of Idaho and of the Pacific Northwest. It is wholly Johnson's own … Train Dreams puts me in mind of a late Bob Dylan album: with the wildness and psychedelia of youth burned out of him, Johnson's eccentricity is revealed as pure Americana … In this book he's meditating on the ground beneath his feet, and from this meditation creating a new kind of Western.
