Nobody Move
by:
Denis Johnson (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781410416117 (1410416119)
Publish date: May 1st 2009
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Pages no: 229
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 ...