Nobody Move
by:
Denis Johnson (author)
From the National Book Award–winning, bestselling author of Tree of Smoke comes a provocative thriller set in the American West. Nobody Move, which first appeared in the pages of Playboy, is the story of an assortment of lowlifes in Bakersfield, California, and their cat-and-mouse game over $2.3...
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From the National Book Award–winning, bestselling author of Tree of Smoke comes a provocative thriller set in the American West. Nobody Move, which first appeared in the pages of Playboy, is the story of an assortment of lowlifes in Bakersfield, California, and their cat-and-mouse game over $2.3 million. Touched by echoes of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, Nobody Move is at once an homage to and a variation on literary form. It salutes one of our most enduring and popular genres—the American crime novel—but with a grisly humor and outrageousness that are Denis Johnson’s own. Sexy, suspenseful, and above all entertaining, Nobody Move shows one of our greatest novelists at his versatile best.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780374222901 (0374222908)
Publish date: April 27th 2009
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages no: 196
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Academic,
Literature,
American,
Mystery,
Culture,
Contemporary,
College,
Thriller,
Crime,
Noir
Good fun. Nowhere as deep as his other works, but good fun and a step up for airplane books.
Oh, the gritty, gritty minutiae. So much description to accomplish so little.
Graceful writing, fun reading
This had two things going for it, it was short and had Will Patton narrating the audio version.
Lean yet prone to intriguing distractions, full of grit and a whole lot of bad things happening to bad people but still marked by Johnson's typical empathy for fuckheads. It may bother some that this is an unabashed Popov shot of a crime novel, a little cheaper-tasting than you might have expected ...
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