Tree of Smoke
by:
Denis Johnson (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781616862503 (1616862505)
Publish date: September 4th 2007
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages no: 624
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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