"Denis Johnson is a true American artist, and Tree of Smoke is a tremendous book." –The New York Times Book Review
"I can't be sure that there's been a better American novel published in the past ten years. It is a masterpiece." –
The Miami Herald "It will . . . get inside your head like the war it is describing–mystifying, horrifying, mesmerizing. [Johnson] 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
