Tree of Smoke

✍ Johnson, Denis 📂 Fiction 🌐 English ⚖ 376 KB

✍ Johnson, Denis 📂 Fiction 📅 2008 🏛 Pan Macmillan 🌐 en-GB ⚖ 376 KB

### Amazon.com Review _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 Johnso

Tree of Smoke

✍ Johnson, Denis 📂 Fiction 📅 2007 🏛 Farrar, Straus & Giroux 🌐 English ⚖ 381 KB 👁 1 views

Denis Johnson's long-awaited Vietnam novel is as labyrinthine and mysterious as the tunnels of Cu Chi. Johnson follows dozens of characters, including the wayward Houston brothers (who appeared as would-be bank robbers in Johnson's nearly perfect first novel, ANGELS), a cadre of PsyOp (Psychological

Tree of Smoke

✍ Johnson, Denis 📂 Fiction 📅 2007 🏛 Farrar Straus & Giroux 🌐 English ⚖ 386 KB

EDITORIAL REVIEW: \*\*\*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 R

Tree of Smoke

✍ Johnson, Denis 📂 Fiction 📅 2007 🏛 Farrar Straus & Giroux 🌐 English ⚖ 404 KB

EDITORIAL REVIEW: \*\*\*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 R

Tree of Smoke: novel

✍ Johnson, Denis 📂 Fiction 📅 2007;2008 🏛 Farrar, Straus and Giroux;Picador 🌐 English ⚖ 374 KB 👁 2 views

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.