"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. 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
