Tree of Smoke, finally

[Ya Sam]

Book Description

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.


http://www.amazon.com/Tree-Smoke-Novel-Denis-Johnson/dp/0374279128

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