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Tree of Smoke

A Novel

By Denis Johnson

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| Paperback | 9780312427740

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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 Continue

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."

Critics

  • Monstrous cunning

    Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson 614pp, Picador, £16.99 Who'd have thought that Denis Johnson had this kind of whopping, mega-ton novel in him? His last, The Name of the World, ran to a mere 120 pages but still managed to sneak on to the shortlist for ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Tree of Smoke

    Skip Sands is an undercover CIA agent working for Colonel Francis Xavier Sands, who happens to be his uncle, on a psychological operation to oust the Vietcong in the early Sixties. As Skip is sucked into the war in Vietnam, the question of what the A ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

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