Nobody Move: A Novel
by Denis Johnson
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Author: Denis JohnsonEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-04-27
ISBN: 0374222908
Number of pages: 208
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Book Review: Tight curves, tall pines, and geezer rock
Summary: 5 Stars
What Gene and Dean Ween are to rock music Denis Johnson is to crime writing. Hell, make that just writing, period. The man is an uncommonly fine scribbler any way you slice him. I've read Nobody Move literally about seven or eight times now, in serial form you understand, and honestly think the guy a miracle of farking nature. That's why I got myself Nobody Move in book form too--reading Playboy on the subway is something of a faux pas apparently. Right at the end of page four, for instance--the actual second page of this stupendously funny and entertaining story--Johnson types up the following short description of Jimmy Luntz:
"A shave, a haircut, a tuxedo. He was practically Monte Carlo."
Hysterical. A little later when Anita sees Jimmy toss his gun into the river, Johnson notes the following about the gambling warbler:
"A slouchy guy, a skinny guy. He wasn't wearing a Hawaiian shirt at the moment but undoubtedly possessed several."
Or what about the bookie's collector and shooting victim Ernest Gambol? This dude with the impossibly large head is lounging in Mary's gaff after that laugh-your-pants-off phone call from Juarez, just sitting there staring into space with his wounded leg out on the ottoman, and here is what Johnson has to say:
"His brow looked even heavier than usual. He kept his lips clamped together. It didn't seem possible, but maybe he was thinking."
See, this is exactly why I'm reading for the umpteenth time this nifty and explosive little noir. Some folks complain about the seemingly abrupt and inconclusive ending but for me the only problem with the ending was that it was in fact the end and I didn't have any more of Johnson's scintillating prose poetry to feast on. Let's hope some dope doesn't get the bright idea of turning this pitch-perfect novel into a movie--some books are just too dang good for the routine blandishments of the silver screen.
Summary of Nobody Move: A Novel
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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