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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...

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Main Author: Johnson, Denis, 1949-
Other Authors: Patton, Will
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Language:English
Published: New York : Macmillan Audio, 2007.
Edition:Unabridged.
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Fiction.
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Summary: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. Tree of Smoke is Denis Johnson's first full-length novel in nine years, and his most gripping, beautiful, and powerful work to date.
Item Description:Unabridged.
Physical Description:1 online resource (18 audio files) : digital
Playing Time:23:04:56
Format:Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 649358 KB).
ISBN:9781427220189
Author Notes:Denis Johnson was born in Munich, Germany on July 1, 1949. He received a bachelor's degree and a master's degree from the University of Iowa. He published his first book of poetry, The Man Among the Seals, at the age of 19. However, addictions to alcohol and drugs derailed him and he was in a psychiatric ward at the age of 21. He was sober by the early 1980s.

Along with writing several volumes of poetry, Johnson wrote short stories for The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Paris Review, and Best American Short Stories. His novels included Angels, Jesus' Son, Resuscitation of a Hanged Man, Already Dead, Nobody Move, Train Dreams, and The Laughing Monsters. He won the National Book Award in 2007 for Tree of Smoke. He also received the Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts, the Robert Frost Award, and the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. He died of liver cancer on May 24, 2017 at the age of 67.

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