Jimmy Luntz is an innocent man, more or less. Hes 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 Gambols boss significant money, and Gambols been known to do serious harm to his charges. Soon enough a gun comes out, and Jimmys 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.
From the National Book Awardwinning author Denis Johnson,Nobody Move does exactly what noir should dopropel the reader downhill, with its cast of losers, louts and toughs as they cheat, shoot, and exploit one another into fast-talking oblivion (Jess Walter,The Boston Globe).
A quick, dirty, classically noir heist story from the NBA-winning author, set among killers, lowlifes and dangerous women in California.
Denis Johnson(19492017) was the author of nine novels, one novella, two books of short stories, five collections of poetry, two collections of plays, and one book of reportage. His novel
Tree of Smokewon the 2007 National Book Award.
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 nobodys hands are clean but everyone gets great lines.
Bob Minzesheimer,USA Today
Reads like a Coen brothers movie waiting to happen, a cross betweenBlood SimpleandNo Country for Old Men.
Andrew Ervin,The Miami Herald
The God I want to believe in has a voice and a sense of humor like Denis Johnsons.
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