Tree of Smoke: A NovelFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007 M09 4 - 624 páginas Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real American and finally as simply the Fucking American. That's me. |
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... called him to the window. We were walking past the place and he says, 'Hang on, I gotta talk to this guy about a debt.' They talked one minute and then the guy I was with—he shot the other one. Put his gun right against the window ...
... called “You Really Got Me”: You really got me— You really got me— You really got me— Before very much longer the two brothers got into an argument with each other over nothing, and Bill Houston spilled a pitcher of beer right into the ...
... picking out situations, people, as good luck, bad luck. He drank Lucky Lager, he smoked Lucky Strikes. The colonel called him “Lucky.” “John F. Kennedy was a beautiful man,” the colonel said. “That's what killed him.” 1964.
... called the Monk and who'd gone north when the country had been partitioned. Hao hadn't seen the Monk for a decade, not until this afternoon, and now he was gone: he'd hopped backward off the bike, removed his sandals, and padded off ...
... called Good Luck Mountain. The fortunes of the mountain had altered, however. The construction arm of the American military was making an encampment up there, most people guessed a permanent landing zone for helicopters. News had ...
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