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Original Title: Tree of Smoke
ISBN: 0374279128 (ISBN13: 9780374279127)
Edition Language: English
Characters: Francis X. Sands, William "Skip" Sands, Private James Houston, Major Eddie Aguinaldo, Jimmy Storm, Dietrich Fest
Literary Awards: Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Fiction (2008), National Book Award for Fiction (2007), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2009)

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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—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. 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. 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.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 is the 2007 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.

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Title:Tree of Smoke
Author:Denis Johnson
Book Format:Hardcover
Book Edition:First Edition, 2007
Pages:Pages: 614 pages
Published:September 4th 2007 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (first published September 4th 2004)
Categories:Fiction. War. Historical. Historical Fiction

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It's here folks!! How to Win the National Book Award for Dummies! Denis Johnson has pulled heavily from this publication for his novel Tree of Smoke. Let's highlight the recommendations he used to win the Book Award for fiction.#3. Explore a topic of great controversy for the country and its people.Johnson: the Vietnam War.#6. Story must be sweeping, at least 500 pages.Johnson: 614.#7. Include at least 5 main characters with individual story threads.Johnson: 8.7.a. Threads should intertwine but

I don't usually read others' reviews before writing one of my own, but I had to in this case, because I figured I must have been reading a different book than everyone else. I picked this up in the first place because so many people liked it (National Book Award, numerous Top 10 lists for 2007, including NYT, Time, and EW). I rarely give up on a book, but I came close with this one a number of times; for instance, at page 300, 400, 500...even 600. I forged on, buoyed by all the acclaim and my

I am not reviewing this book, as I consider myself to be utterly unqualified and am not sufficiently infatuated with my own sense of taste. I liked it. A lot. Hence the stars. There.What I'm really delighting in right now, however, is how thoroughly unqualified B.R. Myers proved himself to be as well. His Atlantic Monthly review (found at: my link text) of "Tree of Smoke" is a display of such blind zealotry that I can't decide between crying out for him to be publicly horsewhipped and merely

I must not be smart enough for this book because I didn't love it the way I know I should have. The critical reviews of this book were amazing--words like "masterpiece" were used often (see eg NYT review). To me, this novel felt like work, so much so that I had to take breaks and read the truly awful Sushi for Beginners just to get through it. The story is complicated because there are so many characters it becomes hard to focus on the so-called "main" ones. The narrative changes frequently and

I admit I was biased toward this novel even before I opened it, due partly to prior admiration toward Denis Johnson and partly to the fact that this is the most beautifully designed book I own. I just want to hold it and look at it and rub it against my face.That said.Everything is accomplished in this book. The Vietnam War is approached from a variety of angles--infantry, tunnel rat, South Vietnamese fighter pilot, North Vietnamese agent, CIA operative, outsourced assassin--to attempt to give a

This is one hell of a novel. In my opinion it was worth the time, and deserving of the accolades it received. By page 400 I could not put it down. Prior to that it was hit and miss but mostly very readable. In a way, ToS reminds me of Moby Dick or Blood Meridian: a great journey, a larger than life figure tormented by something inchoate yet total, severity of language and philosophical outlook, total destruction, a feeling like being slowly pulled apart the deeper you descend...One of the

Tree of Smoke is something like a good, plot-driven thriller (like LeCarré more than Clancy) injected with a heady dose of fog of war. It's a novel that looks at the Vietnam War through a wonderfully tuned eye for the humane, a critical piece that has no truck with the cliché activisms we're used to. It's a novel about the human effects of fighting for abstractions. It's about forgiveness and salvation, about guilt itself in the face of the unswerving trueness of death. It's about what we do to