Tree of Smoke (Signed)

Johnson, Denis

ISBN 10: 0374279128 / ISBN 13: 9780374279127

Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York, 2007

About this Item

First Edition stated wtih number line 10-1. As new, stored flat since 2007, unread book, no marks or flaws to book, signed by author when he was in Minneapolis at the U of M Esther Freier Endowed Lecture on April 11, 2012 (program included). Dustjacket ( $27.00 price) in mylar protector. More photos available upon rerquest. Book shipped well packed in a box and USPS tracking number supplied upon shipment.

Seller Inventory # 003069

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tree of Smoke (Signed)
• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374279128
• ISBN 13: 9780374279127
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author on Title Page
• Seller catalogs:
  • ABE

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Denis Johnson is the author of five novels, a collection of poetry and one book of reportage. He is the recipient of a Lannan Fellowship and a Whiting Writer's Award, among many other honors for his work. He lives in northern Idaho.