Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
![Loading indicator](/images/ajax-loader-bar.gif)
This mammoth odyssey about the Vietnam War transcends all other attempts to write about Vietnam, and makes them look like Hallmark greeting cards. It follows Skip Sands, working for the psychological operations department of the CIA, and his larger than life uncle “Colonel Sands”. It takes us everywhere in Southeast Asia, and even back to the United States. Johnson depicts a war where nothing is clear, where friends and enemies are indistinguishable, and where myths are created out of the land itself.
With a cast of half-a-dozen supporting characters, he portrays the war from the perspective of both sides of Vietnam, from two G.I. brothers from Arizona (who appeared in Johnson’s Angels), from a widowed Canadian nurse who can’t stop reading Calvin, from a Sergeant who seems to be perpetually tripping on acid, from a German hit-man, from a priest in the Philippines who thinks he’s Judas, from a “civilian” war-hero Colonel who’s trying to implement his own unorthodox campaign against the Vietcong.
Spanning thirty years, and over 700 pages, it’s still a disappointment when you arrive at the last page. This is Johnson’s masterpiece – a book you can imagine him writing under a succubus’s spell in a fallout shelter—hair long, unshaven, chain-smoking, frenzied to get the words out.
Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
![Loading indicator](/images/ajax-loader-bar.gif)
Previews available in: French English Portuguese
Subjects
Vietnam War, 1961-1975, award:national_book_award=2007, National Book Award Winner, Fiction, award:national_book_award=fiction, Large type books, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, war & military, Vietnam war, 1961-1975, fiction, United States, United States. Central Intelligence Agency, Intelligence officers, Vietnam War (1961-1975) fast (OCoLC)fst01431664, Fiction, espionage, Fiction, historical, Widows, fiction, Central Intelligence Agency, Fiction, thrillers, espionage, Roman américain, Littérature américaine, Guerre du Viêt-nam, 1961-1975, Romans, nouvellesPlaces
United StatesShowing 8 featured editions. View all 15 editions?
Edition | Availability |
---|---|
1 |
eeee
|
2 |
eeee
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
3 |
eeee
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
4 |
eeee
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
5 |
eeee
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
6 |
eeee
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
7
Tree of Smoke: A Novel
September 4, 2007, Audio Renaissance
Audio CD
in English
- Unabridged edition
1427202141 9781427202147
|
aaaa
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
8 |
eeee
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
Book Details
The Physical Object
ID Numbers
Links outside Open Library
Community Reviews (0)
Feedback?History
- Created April 30, 2008
- 6 revisions
Wikipedia citation
×CloseCopy and paste this code into your Wikipedia page. Need help?
August 10, 2010 | Edited by IdentifierBot | added LibraryThing ID |
April 24, 2010 | Edited by Open Library Bot | Fixed duplicate goodreads IDs. |
April 16, 2010 | Edited by bgimpertBot | Added goodreads ID. |
April 14, 2010 | Edited by Open Library Bot | Linked existing covers to the edition. |
April 30, 2008 | Created by an anonymous user | Imported from amazon.com record |