Tree of Smoke: A Novel [Paperback]

Tree of Smokeis the 2007 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.

One of theNew York Times10 Best Books of the Year

Named a Best Book of the Year byTime,The Washington Post,The Boston Globe,ChicagoTribune,San FranciscoChronicle,Salon,Slate, The National Book Critics Circle,The Christian Science Monitor. . . .

Tree of Smokeis 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 inThe New York Times,Tree of Smokeis bound to become one of the classic works of literature produced by that tragic and uncannily familiar war.

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

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