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Tree of Smoke - by Denis Johnson (Paperback)

Tree of Smoke - by  Denis Johnson (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>From the author of "Jesus' Son" comes this long-awaited follow-up--a National Book Award-winning tale of two American families swept up in the secrets and lies of the Vietnam war.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER <p/>One of the <i>New York Times</i> 10 Best Books of the Year<br></b><b><br>The God I want to believe in has a voice and a sense of humor like Denis Johnson's." --<i>Jonathan Franzen</i> </b> <b> <p/>Named A Best Book of the Year by <i>Time</i>, <i>The Washington Post</i>, <i>The Boston Globe</i>, <i>Chicago</i><i> Tribune</i>, <i>San Francisco</i><i> Chronicle</i>, <i>Salon</i>, <i>Slate</i>, The National Book Critics Circle, </b><i><b>The Christian Science Monitor. . .<br></b></i><br><i>Tree of Smoke </i>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 <i>The New York Times</i>, <i>Tree of Smoke</i> is bound to become one of the classic works of literature produced by that tragic and uncannily familiar war.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Denis Johnson is a true American artist, and <i>Tree of Smoke </i>is a tremendous book." --<i>The New York Times Book Review</i> <p/>"I can't be sure that there's been a better American novel published in the past ten years. It is a masterpiece." --<i>The Miami Herald</i> <p/>"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." --<i>The Washington Post Book World</i> <p/>"<i>Tree of Smoke</i> is a masterpiece of language and depth." --<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i> <p/>"Johnson has captured the zeitgeist of American experience as surely as Twain, Hemingway, or Ellison." --<i>New York Post</i> <p/>"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." --<i>Chicago Tribune</i> <p/>"Johnson has written his <i>War and Peace.</i>" --<i>Harper's Magazine</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Denis Johnson (1949-2017)</b> is the author of eight novels, one novella, one book of short stories, three collections of poetry, two collections of plays, and one book of reportage. His novel <i>Tree of Smoke</i> won the 2007 National Book Award.

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