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Tree of Smoke: A Novel

by: Denis Johnson

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780312427740
ISBN: 0312427743
Label: Picador
Manufacturer: Picador
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 720
Publication Date: September 02, 2008
Publisher: Picador
Release Date: September 02, 2008
Sales Rank: 10419
Studio: Picador



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Winner of the National Book Award

One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year


Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Amazon.com, Salon, Slate, The National Book Critics Circle, The Christian Science Monitor. . . .

Tree of Smoke is the story of William 'Skip' Sands, CIA--engaged in Pschological Operations against the Vietcong--and the disasters that befall him. It is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert and into a war where the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In the words of Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times, Tree of Smoke is 'bound to become one of the classic works of literature produced by that tragic and uncannily familiar war.'





Amazon.com Review:
Amazon Significant Seven, September 2007: Denis Johnson is one of those few great hopes of American writing, fully capable of pulling out a ground-changing masterpiece, as he did in 1992 with the now-legendary collection, Jesus' Son. Tree of Smoke showed every sign of being his 'big book': 600+ pages, years in the making, with a grand subject (the Vietnam War). And in the reading it lives up to every promise. It's crowded with the desperate people, always short of salvation, who are Johnson's specialty, but despite every temptation of the Vietnam dreamscape it is relentlessly sober in its attention to on-the-ground details and the gradations of psychology. Not one of its 614 pages lacks a sentence or an observation that could set you back on your heels. This is the book Johnson fans have been waiting for--along with everybody else, whether they knew it or not. --Tom Nissley



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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Too much, too long, too little
Having written a novel about the Vietnam War and read every fictional account of the tragedy, I picked ... Read More


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Don't waste your precious time reading this and hoping it gets better
I've read hundreds of novels and I have never been moved to write a review one way or the other, but purchasing ... Read More


Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - A Three Star Novel
The writer Chaim Potok said once in an lecture I heard him give that a librarian had told him, when he, as a youngster, ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Is there an editor in the house?
Really? National Book Award? Really? Although Johnson has captivating scene followed by captivating scene, the book as ... Read More


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Long, tedious, sad, angry and confusing. It was awful!
I can't resist novels about Vietnam. And this 1997 book had absolutely rave reviews. It even won the National Book Award. ... Read More

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