Description
| Product ID: | 9780330449212 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Tree of Smoke |
| Authors: | Author: Denis Johnson |
| Page Count: | 624 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Espionage and spy thriller, Vietnam War fiction, Espionage & spy thriller, Vietnam War fiction |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A dark, indelible epic about the other side of the American Dream <p><i>Tree of Smoke</i> – the name given to a ‘psy op’ that might or might not be hypothetical and might or might not be officially sanctioned – is Denis Johnson’s most gripping, visionary and ambitious work to date. Set in south-east Asia and the US, and spanning two decades, it ostensibly tells the story of Skip Sands, a CIA spy who may or may not be engaged in psychological operations against the Viet Cong -- but also takes the reader on a surreal yet vivid journey, dipping in and out of characters’ lives to reveal fundamental truths at the heart of the human condition.<br><br> ‘A <i>Catch-22</i> for our times’ <u>Alan Warner</u>, Books of the Year, <i>Observer</i><br><br> 'The God I want to believe in has a voice and a sense of humour like Denis Johnson's' <u>Jonathan Franzen</u><br><br> ‘An epic of drenched sensuality and absurdly chewable dialogue, as though Don DeLillo and Joseph Heller had collaborated on a Vietnam war novel’ Steven Poole, Books of the Year, <i>New Statesman</i></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2008-08-01 |
