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Nobody Move

A Novel

Author: Denis Johnson

Nobody Move

Nobody Move

About This Book

A quick, dirty, classically noir heist story from the NBA-winning author, set among killers, lowlifes and dangerous women in California.
Page Count
208
On Sale
04/27/2010

Book Details

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.

Imprint Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

ISBN

9781429959711

In The News

“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

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