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Nobody Move

Denis Johnson

Hardcover | Pages: 196 pages

Rating: 3.26 | 5267 Users | 620 Reviews

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Title	:	Nobody Move
Author	:	Denis Johnson
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 196 pages
Published	:	April 27th 2009 by Farrar Straus Giroux (first published 2009)
Categories	:	Fiction. Thriller. Mystery. Crime. Drama. Suspense. Noir

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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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Original Title:	Nobody Move
ISBN:	0374222908 (ISBN13: 9780374222901)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Bakersfield, California(United States)

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This is a spare, well-crafted crime novel with great laconic dialogue, believably seedy characters, and a satisfying--although far from pat--resolution.

read this in two days- a perfect noir- did he write this to make a bunch of dough from a screenplay? denis johnson's tender touch with language and the exstatic moments of human consciousness (sickness, near-death, sex, exhaustion, adrenaline, etc), but packed into a shoot-em-up genre-convention.

Bakerfield, California. Jimmy Luntz works for Gambol who in turn works for Juarez. Luntz loves a beautiful alcoholic Indian girl called Anita Desilvera. They are all petty thieves. One time, they got a big haul from a bank: $2.5M. This book is about greed and who should get how much. Of course, there has to be someone to chase them so here comes Mary the army medic who has been hunting for Gambol since time immemorial.Notice the names: Jimmy is the main protagonist and Jimmy is a "common name."

I enjoyed reading this short, stylish noir first serialized in PLAYBOY. The dialogue, while snappy and pointed, is sometimes hard to follow, or maybe I was just too sleepy. For some reason, the opening pages reminded me of Richard Brautigan's writing, especially the tone, but then the story settles into a wicked noir stoked with double-crosses, violence, and black humor.

Of Johnson's work, Jesus' Son is my favorite and Nobody Move is my most recent. I'll have to read a second time to confirm my suspicion that Johnson's humor is bone-deep as is his love for loser protagonists. They come out equal parts do-gooder and total fuck-up.This book comes off as a quick and dirty assignment, something to play at, after years of toil on Tree of Smoke. And I'm still trying to figure its introductory remarks on war.Anyway, there are plenty of lines to love in Nobody Move.

This has a very powerful opening chapter and continues to be action-packed and thrilling throughout. Johnson's novel concerns Jimmy Luntz, and is as fine an example of American noir as I can think of, it has those key ingredients, seedy motel rooms, action on and off the freeways, and the slang dialogue. You are never sure who to empathise with, if anyone. Just as you start to warm to Jimmy he does something that makes you think the opposite. The other key characters, Juarez (who Jimmy owes

"Nobody Move" is the Denis Johnson novel I have been waiting for since "The Name of the World" came out nearly ten years ago. For most of the interviening decade Johnson toiled away to produce "Tree of Smoke", a long-winded and often directionless novel. Enough people confused its massiveness for merit to earn Tree of Smoke the National Book Award - an honor that might have more to do with finally giving Johnson the credit he deserves for earlier (and better) works like "Resuscitation of a