Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson

Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson

`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 Denis Johnson's most gripping, visionary and ambitious work to date. `There isn't an American voice I love more than Denis Johnson's' MICHAEL HERR `Once Johnson gets his hooks into you - and it takes about two sentences - it's pretty much impossible to stop reading' New York Times Book Review `One of the true legislators of tortured American souls' ALAN WARNER, Guardian `A superlatively good American writer who gives a good name to those ugly terms dirty realism and poetic prose' DAVID FLUSFEDER, Daily Telegraph

'There isn't an American voice I love more than Denis Johnson's' MICHAEL HERR 'Once Johnson gets his hooks into you - and it takes about two sentences - it's pretty much impossible to stop reading' New York Times Book Review 'One of the true legislators of tortured American souls' ALAN WARNER, Guardian 'A superlatively good American writer who gives a good name to those ugly terms dirty realism and poetic prose' DAVID FLUSFEDER, Daily Telegraph

Denis Johnson is the author of several novels, including Already Dead (published by Picador), Resuscitation of a Hanged Man, Fiskadoro, The Stars at Noon, Angels and The Name of the World, as well as a short story writer and poet. He lives in northern Idaho.

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ISBN 13	9780230703681
ISBN 10	0230703682
Title	Tree of Smoke
Author	Denis Johnson
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pan Macmillan
Year published	2007-09-07
Number of pages	624
Prizes	Winner of United States National Book Awards: Fiction 2007
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