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. get inside your head like the war it is describing-mystifying, horrifying, mesmerizing. It is a masterpiece.'- The Miami Herald 'It will. 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, Johnson Has Captured the Zeitgeist of American Experience As Surely As Twain, Hemingway, or Ellison., '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.

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., '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.

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