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Denis Johnson’s ‘Nobody Move’
By Jessica Schneider May 11, 2009, 10:17 GMT
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 ...more
The National Book Award winner Denis Johnson has a new book out, titled Nobody Move.”
His NBA winning “Tree of Smoke” has gathered a mixed bag of reviews on Amazon, but according to the NYT: “Denis Johnson — by far one of our best writers — has written what might seem like a side step: a short, tight crime noir, produced under deadline as a serial for Playboy magazine.”
PW notes: “With its crackling dialogue and mercilessly bleak worldview, this stark and darkly funny chronicle of a four-way race to the bottom is a testament to Johnson's sublime sympathy for lowlifes.”
The NYT reviewer also notes that this recent book: “is a Warhol soup can, a flinty, bright piece of pop art meant to be instantly understood and enjoyed.”
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 208 pages. Read the NYT review here, as well as the first chapter.
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