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Tree of Smoke is a 2007 novel by American author Denis Johnson which won the National Book Award for Fiction and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. It is about a man named Skip Sands who joins the CIA in 1965, and begins working in Vietnam during the American involvement there. The time frame of the novel is from 1963 to 1970, with a coda set in 1983. One of the protagonists of Tree of Smoke is Bill Houston, who was the main character in Johnson's 1983 debut novel Angels.

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  • Arbre de fumée (Tree of Smoke) est un roman américain de Denis Johnson (1949-2017), publié en 2007 en anglais par les éditions Farrar, Straus and Giroux, et en français par Christian Bourgois éditeur en 2008. (fr)
  • Tree of Smoke is a 2007 novel by American author Denis Johnson which won the National Book Award for Fiction and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. It is about a man named Skip Sands who joins the CIA in 1965, and begins working in Vietnam during the American involvement there. The time frame of the novel is from 1963 to 1970, with a coda set in 1983. One of the protagonists of Tree of Smoke is Bill Houston, who was the main character in Johnson's 1983 debut novel Angels. There are several references in the novel to the title phrase, which has Biblical origins in three cited passages: Song of Solomon 3:6; Book of Joel 2:30, 31; and Exodus 33:9, 10. (en)
  • Albero di fumo (titolo originale Tree of Smoke) è un romanzo di guerra del 2007 dello scrittore statunitense Denis Johnson. Il protagonista il colonnello Francis X. Sand, è un veterano dell'aviazione degli Stati Uniti, che opera in Viet Nam come direttore delle operazioni dello Psy Ops un gruppo formato dalla CIA nel Sud-est asiatico. Due bombe al napalm lanciate da un aereo vietnamita A-1E Skyraider vicino a Can Tho, Vietnam del sud. (it)
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  • Arbre de fumée (Tree of Smoke) est un roman américain de Denis Johnson (1949-2017), publié en 2007 en anglais par les éditions Farrar, Straus and Giroux, et en français par Christian Bourgois éditeur en 2008. (fr)
  • Albero di fumo (titolo originale Tree of Smoke) è un romanzo di guerra del 2007 dello scrittore statunitense Denis Johnson. Il protagonista il colonnello Francis X. Sand, è un veterano dell'aviazione degli Stati Uniti, che opera in Viet Nam come direttore delle operazioni dello Psy Ops un gruppo formato dalla CIA nel Sud-est asiatico. Due bombe al napalm lanciate da un aereo vietnamita A-1E Skyraider vicino a Can Tho, Vietnam del sud. (it)
  • Tree of Smoke is a 2007 novel by American author Denis Johnson which won the National Book Award for Fiction and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. It is about a man named Skip Sands who joins the CIA in 1965, and begins working in Vietnam during the American involvement there. The time frame of the novel is from 1963 to 1970, with a coda set in 1983. One of the protagonists of Tree of Smoke is Bill Houston, who was the main character in Johnson's 1983 debut novel Angels. (en)
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  • Arbre de fumée (fr)
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