Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson Paperback Book

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Rent Tree of Smoke

Author: Denis Johnson

Format: Quality Paperback, Unabridged-CD

Publisher: Picador USA

Published: Sep 2008

Genre: Fiction - Espionage

Retail Price: $24.00

Pages: 720

Synopsis

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.'

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Reviews

BookLender review by Raymond on 2010-12-01 15:57:47

Why this book has received such good reviews and awards is mind boggling. This novel of the VietNam era is filled with characters who are drunk, or corrupt, cynical, and in many cases just unbelievable.A sad, sick cast of characters who would have been drummed out of national service.Very disappointing.