Tree of Smoke.
JOHNSON, Denis.
Tree of Smoke.
"This life is but the childhood of our immortality": First Edition of Tree of Smoke; signed by Denis Johnson
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
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First edition of this National Book Award-winning postmodern war novel. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Boldly signed by Dennis Johnson on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design and art by Susan Mitchell. Accompanied by a New York Times article dated September 2, 2007, about the book and author laid in.
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson is a sprawling, ambitious novel that explores the psychological and moral disintegration of American intelligence operations during the Vietnam War. Winner of the 2007 National Book Award for Fiction, the novel follows a cast of interconnected characters—spies, soldiers, missionaries, and drifters—through a fragmented narrative that mirrors the chaos and ethical ambiguity of the war itself. With its dense, lyrical prose and haunting meditations on violence, faith, and disillusionment, Tree of Smoke challenges traditional war fiction by emphasizing spiritual crisis over tactical detail.
