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Intended Audience: Adult

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ISBN: 9780312427740

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Picador

ISBN-10

0312427743

ISBN-13

9780312427740

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110852525

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Book Title

Tree of Smoke : a Novel

Number of Pages

720 Pages

Language

English

Topic

War & Military, Thrillers / Espionage, Literary, Historical

Publication Year

2008

Genre

Fiction

Author

Denis Johnson

Format

Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height

1.3 in

Item Weight

19.8 Oz

Item Length

8.2 in

Item Width

5.7 in

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Johnson has captured the zeitgeist of American experience as surely as Twain, Hemingway, or Ellison., Opens a window onto a world of mystery, war, and intrigue whose importance in the (usually) unwritten history of our republic can't be denied., "Denis Johnson is a true American artist, and Tree of Smoke is a tremendous book." --The New York Times Book Review "The God I want to believe in has a voice and a sense of humor like Denis Johnson's."--Jonathan Franzen "I can't be sure that there's been a better American novel published in the past ten years. It is a masterpiece."-- The Miami Herald "It will . . . get inside your head like the war it is describing--mystifying, horrifying, mesmerizing. [Johnson] has written a book that by the end wraps around you as tightly as a snake."-- The Washington Post Book World " Tree of Smoke is a masterpiece of language and depth."-- San Francisco Chronicle "Johnson has captured the zeitgeist of American experience as surely as Twain, Hemingway, or Ellison."-- New York Post "Opens a window onto a world of mystery, war, and intrigue whose importance in the (usually) unwritten history of our republic can't be denied."-- Chicago Tribune "Johnson has written his War and Peace."--Harper's Magazine , "Denis Johnson is a true American artist, and Tree of Smoke is a tremendous book." --The New York Times Book Review "The God I want to believe in has a voice and a sense of humor like Denis Johnson's."--Jonathan Franzen "I can't be sure that there's been a better American novel published in the past ten years. It is a masterpiece."-- The Miami Herald "It will . . . get inside your head like the war it is describing--mystifying, horrifying, mesmerizing. [Johnson] has written a book that by the end wraps around you as tightly as a snake."-- The Washington Post Book World " Tree of Smoke is a masterpiece of language and depth."-- San Francisco Chronicle "Johnson has captured the zeitgeist of American experience as surely as Twain, Hemingway, or Ellison."-- New York Post "Opens a window onto a world of mystery, war, and intrigue whose importance in the (usually) unwritten history of our republic can't be denied."-- Chicago Tribune "Johnson has written his War and Peace."--Harper's Magazine, "Denis Johnson is a true American artist, and Tree of Smoke is a tremendous book." --The New York Times Book Review "The God I want to believe in has a voice and a sense of humor like Denis Johnson's."--Jonathan Franzen "I can't be sure that there's been a better American novel published in the past ten years. It is a masterpiece."-- The Miami Herald "It will . . . get inside your head like the war it is describing--mystifying, horrifying, mesmerizing. [Johnson] has written a book that by the end wraps around you as tightly as a snake."-- The Washington Post Book World " Tree of Smoke is a masterpiece of language and depth."-- San Francisco Chronicle "Johnson has captured the zeitgeist of American experience as surely as Twain, Hemingway, or Ellison."-- New York Post "Opens a window onto a world of mystery, war, and intrigue whose importance in the (usually) unwritten history of our republic can't be denied."-- Chicago Tribune "Johnson has written his War and Peace. " - -Harper's Magazine , "Denis Johnson is a true American artist, and Tree of Smoke is a tremendous book." -- The New York Times Book Review "I can't be sure that there's been a better American novel published in the past ten years. It is a masterpiece." -- The Miami Herald "It will . . . get inside your head like the war it is describing--mystifying, horrifying, mesmerizing. [Johnson] has written a book that by the end wraps around you as tightly as a snake." -- The Washington Post Book World " Tree of Smoke is a masterpiece of language and depth." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Johnson has captured the zeitgeist of American experience as surely as Twain, Hemingway, or Ellison." -- New York Post "Opens a window onto a world of mystery, war, and intrigue whose importance in the (usually) unwritten history of our republic can't be denied." -- Chicago Tribune "Johnson has written his War and Peace. " -- Harper's Magazine, It will . . . get inside your head like the war it is describing--mystifying, horrifying, mesmerizing. [Johnson] has written a book that by the end wraps around you as tightly as a snake., "Denis Johnson is a true American artist, and Tree of Smoke is a tremendous book." --The New York Times Book Review "The God I want to believe in has a voice and a sense of humor like Denis Johnson's."--Jonathan Franzen "I can't be sure that there's been a better American novel published in the past ten years. It is a masterpiece."-- The Miami Herald "It will . . . get inside your head like the war it is describing--mystifying, horrifying, mesmerizing. [Johnson] has written a book that by the end wraps around you as tightly as a snake."-- The Washington Post Book World " Tree of Smoke is a masterpiece of language and depth."-- San Francisco Chronicle "Johnson has captured the zeitgeist of American experience as surely as Twain, Hemingway, or Ellison."-- New York Post "Opens a window onto a world of mystery, war, and intrigue whose importance in the (usually) unwritten history of our republic can't be denied."-- Chicago Tribune "Johnson has written hisWar and Peace."--Harper's Magazine, "Denis Johnson is a true American artist, andTree of Smokeis a tremendous book."--The New York Times Book Review "The God I want to believe in has a voice and a sense of humor like Denis Johnson's."--Jonathan Franzen "I can't be sure that there's been a better American novel published in the past ten years. It is a masterpiece."--The Miami Herald "It will . . . get inside your head like the war it is describing--mystifying, horrifying, mesmerizing. [Johnson] has written a book that by the end wraps around you as tightly as a snake."--The Washington Post Book World "Tree of Smokeis a masterpiece of language and depth."--San Francisco Chronicle "Johnson has captured the zeitgeist of American experience as surely as Twain, Hemingway, or Ellison."--New York Post "Opens a window onto a world of mystery, war, and intrigue whose importance in the (usually) unwritten history of our republic can't be denied."--Chicago Tribune "Johnson has written hisWar and Peace."--Harper's Magazine , I can't be sure that there's been a better American novel published in the past ten years. It is a masterpiece., "I can't be sure that there's been a better American novel published in the past ten years. It is a masterpiece."--The Miami Herald "It will . . . get inside your head like the war it is describing--mystifying, horrifying, mesmerizing. [Johnson] has written a book that by the end wraps around you as tightly as a snake."--The Washington Post Book World "Damn impressive, a layered, rich, sweaty accomplishment of massive proportions."--Entertainment Weekly "Tree of Smokeis a Vietnam war novel almost without peer, in which 'the abyss is alive.' Johnson . . . has written the best work of his career, an existential tour de force."--The Plain Dealer(Cleveland) "Good morning and please listen to me: Denis Johnson is a true American artist, andTree of Smokeis a tremendous book."--The New York Times Book Review(cover review) "Johnson's power of empathy is a beam that radiates and cannot be modulated. It's helplessly total. . . . Johnson has written hisWar and Peace."--Harper's Magazine "Gorgeous prose . . . a heartbreaking portrait of war."--Outside "Tree of Smokeis a brilliant pillar of fire. . . . Haunting, tragic, and humane."--Men's Vogue "Opens a window onto a world of mystery, war, and intrigue whose importance in the (usually) unwritten history of our republic can't be denied."--Chicago Tribune "An epic, wrenching new novel . . . delivers a beautifully layered, insightful, and visceral montage of stories."--The Seattle Times, "Denis Johnson is a true American artist, and Tree of Smoke is a tremendous book." -- The New York Times Book Review "The God I want to believe in has a voice and a sense of humor like Denis Johnson's." -- Jonathan Franzen "I can't be sure that there's been a better American novel published in the past ten years. It is a masterpiece." -- The Miami Herald "It will . . . get inside your head like the war it is describing--mystifying, horrifying, mesmerizing. [Johnson] has written a book that by the end wraps around you as tightly as a snake." -- The Washington Post Book World " Tree of Smoke is a masterpiece of language and depth." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Johnson has captured the zeitgeist of American experience as surely as Twain, Hemingway, or Ellison." -- New York Post "Opens a window onto a world of mystery, war, and intrigue whose importance in the (usually) unwritten history of our republic can't be denied." -- Chicago Tribune "Johnson has written his War and Peace. " -- Harper's Magazine

Dewey Decimal

813/.54

Synopsis

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year "The God I want to believe in has a voice and a sense of humor like Denis Johnson's." -- Jonathan Franzen Named A Best Book of the Year by Time , The Washington Post , The Boston Globe , Chicago Tribune , San Francisco Chronicle , Salon , Slate , The National Book Critics Circle, The Christian Science Monitor. . . Tree of Smoke is the story of William "Skip" Sands, CIA--engaged in Psychological 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.", Twenty-five years in the making, a dark, indelible epic of the American empire in decline from the author of Jesus' Son, "one of the best and most compelling novelists in the nation" (Elle), Tree of Smoke is the 2007 National Book Award Winner for Fiction. 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 , Salon , Slate , The National Book Critics Circle, The Christian Science Monitor. . . . Tree of Smoke is the story of William "Skip" Sands, CIA--engaged in Psychological 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."

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