'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. Tree of Smoke is the 2007 National Book Award Winner for Fiction. Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. Set largely in the 1960s, this loose, sprawling novel tracks numerous characters into the mythical heart of American darkness: the Vietnam War. Tree of Smoke: A Novel is written by Denis Johnson and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Tree of Smoke is Denis Johnson’s first full-length novel in nine years, and his most gripping, beautiful, and powerful work to date. Tree of Smoke, which won the National Book Award for fiction, is a searing vision of a world without shores. In its vision of human folly, and its gritty, sympathetic portraits of men and women desperate for an end to their loneliness, whether in sex or death or by the grace of God, this is a story like nothing in our literature. This is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert into a war in which the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. This is the story of Skip Sands-spy-in-training, engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong-and the disasters that befall him thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as the Colonel. Tree of Smoke is the story of William Skip Sands, CIA-engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong-and the disasters that befall him. Imprint Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 9780374708405 In The News Denis Johnson has delivered his masterpiece.

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. Tree of Smoke is Denis Johnson's first full-length novel in nine years, and his most gripping, beautiful, and powerful work to date.

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