


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.
