Tree of Smoke

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER

One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year

"The God I want to believe in has a voice and a sense of humor like Denis Johnson's." --Jonathan Franzen

Named A Best Book of the Year by Time, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Salon, Slate, The National Book Critics Circle, The Christian Science Monitor. . .

Tree of Smoke is 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 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."

Author: Denis Johnson
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 09/02/2008
Pages: 720
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.50w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780312427740

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5
Point Value: 31
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 119129 / Tree of Smoke


Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 08/12/2008 pg. 140
New York Times Book Review 09/21/2008 pg. 26
Time 05/18/2009 pg. 63
Vanity Fair 09/01/2009 pg. 158
Village Voice 12/23/2009 pg. 28

About the Author
Denis Johnson (1949-2017) is the author of eight novels, one novella, one book of short stories, three collections of poetry, two collections of plays, and one book of reportage. His novel Tree of Smoke won the 2007 National Book Award.