Tree of Smoke

"""Denis Johnson has delivered his masterpiece. Chris Offutt ""The God I want to believe in has a voice and a sense of humor like Denis Johnson's."" Jonathan Franzen ""Prose of amazing power and stylishness."" Philip Roth Once Johnson gets his hooks into you- it takes about two sentences it's . . . pretty much impossible to stop reading. David Gates, The New York Times Book Review. An amazingly talented writer . . . We can hear Twain in his biting irony, Whitman in his erotic excess, not a little of Dashiell Hammett too in the hard sentences he throws back at his gouged, wounded world. Vince Passaro, Newsday Once Johnson gets his hooks into you it takes about two sentences . . . p retty much impossible to stop reading. David Gates, ""The New York Times Book Review An amazingly talented writer . . . We can hear Twain in his biting irony, Whitman in his erotic excess, not a little of Dashiell Hammett too in the hard sentences he throws back at his gouged, wounded world. Vince Passaro, ""Newsday"" ""Denis Johnson is a true American artist, and ""Tree of Smoke ""is a tremendous book.""""--The New York Times Book Review """"The God I want to believe in has a voice and a sense of humor like Denis Johnson's.""--Jonathan Franzen"""" ""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"""" ""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 """"Damn impressive, a layered, rich, sweaty accomplishment of massive proportions.""--""Entertainment Weekly """"""Tree of Smoke"" is a Vietnam war novel almost without peer, in which 'the abyss is alive.' Johnson . . . has written the best work of his career, an existential tour de force.""--""The Plain Dealer"" (Cleveland) ""Good morning and please listen to me: Denis Johnson is a true American artist, and ""Tree of Smoke ""is a tremendous book.""""--The New York Times Book Review ""(cover review) ""Johnson's power of empathy is a beam that radiates and cannot be modulated. It's helplessly total. . . . Johnson has written his ""War and Peace,""""--""Harper's Magazine """"Gorgeous prose . . . a heartbreaking portrait of war.""--""Outside """"""Tree of Smoke ""is a brilliant pillar of fire. . . . Haunting, tragic, and humane.""--""Men's Vogue """"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 """"An epic, wrenching new novel . . . delivers a beautifully layered, insightful, and visceral montage of stories.""--""The Seattle Times"" ""Denis Johnson has delivered his masterpiece."" --Chris Offutt ""The God I want to believe in has a voice and a sense of humor like Denis Johnson's."" --Jonathan Franzen ""Prose of amazing power and stylishness."" --Philip Roth ""Once Johnson gets his hooks into you--it takes about two sentences--it's . . . pretty much impossible to stop reading."" --David Gates, ""The New York Times Book Review """"An amazingly talented writer . . . We can hear Twain in his biting irony, Whitman in his erotic excess, not a little of Dashiell Hammett too in the hard sentences he throws back at his gouged, wounded world."" --Vince Passaro, ""Newsday"""