Books by Tim O'Brien

4. Denis Johnson, Tree of Smoke .  The NYT gave it a rave, lead review , as did The Washington Post and other sources.  So far it is being framed as the major American novel of the year.  It’s an almost anachronistically modernist in its structure and seriousness.  And is there really anything more to say about the Vietnam War?  First I was bored but then I reread the first 150 pages and now I love it.