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Tree of Smoke Book

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 NissleyRead More

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    'Once upon a time there was a war, and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real American and finally as simply the Fucking American. That's me.' This is the story of Skip Sands, a CIA spy engaged in psychological operations against the Viet Cong, and the disasters that befall him. It is also the story of two brothers heading towards self-destruction, and a story about double agents, missionaries, killers for hire and lost souls desperate for sex, death or God and thus an end to their loneliness.His first full-length novel in nine years, and one that describes a war where disinformation has become self-delusion, "Tree of Smoke" is Johnson's most gripping, visionary and ambitious work to date. "The God I want to believe in has a voice and a sense of humour like Denis Johnson's" - Jonathan Franzen. "Prose of amazing power and stylishness" - Philip Roth. "There isn't an American voice I love more than Denis Johnson's" - Michael Herr. "A true legislator of the tortured American soul in ceaseless prose of redeeming brilliance" - Alan Warner.

  • 0330449206
  • 9780330449205
  • Denis Johnson
  • 2 November 2007
  • Picador
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 624
  • 1st ed.
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