Tree of Smoke

Description: 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.

Brief description: 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.

Review Quotes:

"Denis Johnson is a true American artist, and Tree of Smoke is a tremendous book." --The New York Times Book Review

"I can't be sure that there's been a better American novel published in the past ten years. It is a masterpiece." --The Miami Herald

"It will . . . get inside your head like the war it is describing--mystifying, horrifying, mesmerizing. [Johnson] has written a book that by the end wraps around you as tightly as a snake." --The Washington Post Book World

"Tree of Smoke is a masterpiece of language and depth." --San Francisco Chronicle

"Johnson has captured the zeitgeist of American experience as surely as Twain, Hemingway, or Ellison." --New York Post

"Opens a window onto a world of mystery, war, and intrigue whose importance in the (usually) unwritten history of our republic can't be denied." --Chicago Tribune

"Johnson has written his War and Peace." --Harper's Magazine