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Nobody Move - Denis Johnson
Nobody Move
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Jimmy Luntz is an innocent man, more or less. He's just leaving a barbershop chorus contest in Bakersfield, California, thinking about placing a few bets at the track, when he gets picked up by a thug named Gambol and his life takes a calamitous turn. Turns out Jimmy owes Gambol's boss... show more
Jimmy Luntz is an innocent man, more or less. He's just leaving a barbershop chorus contest in Bakersfield, California, thinking about placing a few bets at the track, when he gets picked up by a thug named Gambol and his life takes a calamitous turn. Turns out Jimmy owes Gambol's boss significant money, and Gambol's been known to do serious harm to his charges. Soon enough a gun comes out, and Jimmy's on the run. While in hiding he meets up with a vengeful, often-drunk bombshell named Anita, and the two of them go on the lam together, attracting every kind of trouble.The latest from National Book Award-winning author Denis Johnson, Nobody Move "does exactly what noir should do--propel the reader downhill, with its cast of losers, louts and toughs as they cheat, shoot, and exploit one another into fast-talking oblivion" (Jess Walker, The Boston Globe).
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780312429614 (0312429614)
Publisher: Picador
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
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Viking2917's books
Viking2917's books rated it
3.0 Nobody Move: A Novel
Good fun. Nowhere as deep as his other works, but good fun and a step up for airplane books.
fablejack
fablejack rated it
2.0 Nobody Move (An Unabridged Production)[4-CD Set]
Oh, the gritty, gritty minutiae. So much description to accomplish so little.
Silverjump
Silverjump rated it
3.0 Nobody Move
Graceful writing, fun reading
sandin954
sandin954 rated it
3.0 Nobody Move
This had two things going for it, it was short and had Will Patton narrating the audio version.
Another fine mess
Another fine mess rated it
4.0
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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