Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson – Review

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Tree of Smoke: A Novel by Denis Johnson

The ambition is astonishing: Tree of Smoke spans three decades and 600 pages, and takes in a complex world of agents and double agents, plots stacked upon subplots and missions dovetailing into one another. It’s not always well controlled, and this sprawling, at times incoherent read requires perseverance, but the pay-off, when it finally comes, has a great emotional charge.

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