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Nobody Move: A Novel (Paperback)
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Description
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).
About the Author
Denis Johnson is the author of six novels, three collections of poetry, and one book of reportage. His novel Tree of Smoke was the 2007 winner of the National Book Award. He lives in northern Idaho.
Praise for Nobody Move: A Novel…
“Displays a wicked sense of fun.”—Sarah Weinman, The Washington Post
“A short, tight, grimly funny dark crime-comedy about losers, hustlers, alcoholics, murder, lowlifes, and a sexy broad with a heart of ice. I loved it.”—Sam Coale, Providence Journal “A hard-boiled, modern shoot-'em-up in which nobody's hands are clean but everyone gets great lines.”—Bob Minzesheimer, USA Today
“Reads like a Coen brothers movie waiting to happen, a cross between Blood Simple and No Country for Old Men.”—Andrew Ervin, The Miami Herald
Praise for Denis Johnson:
“The God I want to believe in has a voice and a sense of humor like Denis Johnson’s.”—Jonathan Franzen
“We can hearTwain in [Johnson’s] bitter irony, Whitman in his erotic excess . . . An amazingly talented writer.”—Vince Passaro, Newsday
“Good morning and please listen to me: Denis Johnson is a true American artist.”—Jim Lewis, The New York Times Book Review
