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Train Dreams, based on a novella by Denis Johnson, follows his key character one Robert Grainier, played brilliantly by Edgerton, a lumberman who felled timber for railroads at the turn of the 20th century.
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Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
6 Feb. 2026
The history of gubernatorial candidates and winners in Wisconsin is replete with mayors, merchants, lawyers, lumbermen, publishers, educators, industrialists, secretaries of state, attorneys general and lieutenant governors.
The story was distinctly American, about Robert Grainier, a logger and railroad worker living and working in Washington at the turn of the century.
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Emily Zemler,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Feb. 2026
Johnson’s novella captured specific, sometimes seemingly insignificant, moments in the life of an ordinary logger named Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton), who died at 80.