Tree Of Smoke
by:
Denis Johnson (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780330449212 (0330449214)
Publish date: August 1st 2008
Publisher: Picador
Pages no: 614
Edition language: English
I agree with reviewers who call this sprawling or confusing, but I thought both of these aspects contributed to a useful chaos and uncertainty that paralleled the war in Vietnam, the landscape traversed, and the clash of world views. The audiobook was infinitely easier than the novel since the speak...
I think I've gotta give this another go, with much more attention. I think I've been angry that every book isn't the revelation that _Jesus' Son_ was, and so my enthusiasm for them may be more muted than they deserve. Still, my read of this was that it worked like gangbusters on the sentence-level...
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