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'' 'I can't be sure that there's been a better American novel published in the past ten years. Vince Passaro, Newsday '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. We can hear Twain in his biting irony, Whitman in his erotic excess, not a little of Dashiell Hammett too in the hard sentences he throws back at his gouged, wounded world.

David Gates, The New York Times Book Review.

Chris Offutt 'The God I want to believe in has a voice and a sense of humor like Denis Johnson's.' Jonathan Franzen 'Prose of amazing power and stylishness.' Philip Roth Once Johnson gets his hooks into you- it takes about two sentences it's. Vince Passaro, 'Newsday' 'Denis Johnson has delivered his masterpiece. David Gates, 'The New York Times Book Review An amazingly talented writer. Once Johnson gets his hooks into you it takes about two sentences.

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