Details Regarding Books Nobody Move
| Title | : | Nobody Move |
| Author | : | Denis Johnson |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 196 pages |
| Published | : | April 27th 2009 by Farrar Straus Giroux (first published 2009) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Thriller. Mystery. Crime. Drama. Suspense. Noir |
Denis Johnson
Hardcover | Pages: 196 pages Rating: 3.26 | 5267 Users | 620 Reviews
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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.
List Books To Nobody Move
| Original Title: | Nobody Move |
| ISBN: | 0374222908 (ISBN13: 9780374222901) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Bakersfield, California(United States) |
Rating Regarding Books Nobody Move
Ratings: 3.26 From 5267 Users | 620 ReviewsCrit Regarding Books Nobody Move
Fun, quick, dirty---but don't mistake that for good or compelling. You definitely get a sense of Johnson slumming here. Well, maybe not slumming. How about channeling. Channeling testosterone. There's so much of it flowing through this noir diversion my back hair thickened before page 30. Because real men eat each other's testicles for lunch, see. They blow each other's melons open. The simple social graces are opportunities to cock-woggle. Ask a dude his name and he replies, "Fuck Off." Is that"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
While the experts may claim there is no such thing as a perfect crime, Nobody Move is a perfect crime novel - full of moral mazes, messy murders, and topped with a dark and drunken femme fatale. Perhaps the most exciting element is Johnson's subtle and continuous probing into the inner depths of his characters - a significant plot point all too often dropped by strength of the inherent limits of the genre. The sentence-by-sentence quality of his words is unrelenting. And, since this is Denis
(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com:]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted here illegally.)As heavy readers know, it's common for authors of big, giant, important, award-winning tomes to follow them up with something light and short, for a variety of reasons: as a literary 'cleanser,' to avoid burnout as a writer, to pre-deflate high audience expectations. But this turns out to be a real
Are you familiar with the subreddit r/menwritingwomen ? Because that is where this book belongs. Though Johnson's female characters certainly have some agency. Quentin Tarantino could direct the movie.This novel did apparently first appear in Playboy. And it very much reads like a c1950s harboiled detective novel, but everyone here is a criminal--there is no detective. Gamblers, loan sharks, thieves, embezzlers, who knows what all. They come from Arcadia, Bakersfield, and somewhere outside
Okay, so I'll take back my fifteen-year-old pronouncement based on nothing but adolescent prejudice, and finally admit it: Denis Johnson is a really good writer. I wish I could write like Denis Johnson, unless that'd mean I'd also have to dress like Denis Johnson, and start going around in the off-channel-quickly-canceled-nineties-cop-show style purple blazer he's wearing in his author's photo. In that case I guess I'll just go on writing like me, and live with the depressing and thoroughly
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