Tree of Smoke

Resumen del libro

Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real American and finally as simply the Fucking American. That's me.


This is the story of Skip Sands spy-in-training, engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong and the disasters that befall him thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as the Colonel. This is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert into a war in which the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In its vision of human folly, and its gritty, sympathetic portraits of men and women desperate for an end to their loneliness, whether in sex or death or by the grace of God, this is a story like nothing in our literature.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Denis Johnsonx{0026}lt;/B (1949-2017) nació en Munich, pero se crió en Tokio, Manila y Washington. Desde la publicación de sus primeras obras se convirtió en un autor de culto en Estados Unidos. Recibió la beca Lanna Fellowship y el Whiting Writer's Award, entre otros muchos galardones. En 2007 le fue concedido el National Book Award por su novela x{0026}lt;I Árbol de Humox{0026}lt;/I (Literatura Random House, 2008). También es autor de la novela negra x{0026}lt;I Que nadie se muevax{0026}lt;/I (Roja y Negra, 2012) y de las novelas x{0026}lt;I Hijo de Jesúsx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Sueños de trenes,x{0026}lt;/I x{0026}lt;I El nombre del mundox{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I Los monstruos que ríenx{0026}lt;/I , todas ellas publicadas en Literatura Random House.x{0026}lt;/P