Jimmy Luntz is an innocent man, more or less. He's 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 Gambol's boss significant money, and Gambol's been known to do serious harm to his charges. Soon enough a gun comes out, and Jimmy's 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 Award-winning author Denis Johnson comesNobody Move: does exactly what noir should do--propel the reader downhill, with its cast of losers, louts and toughs as they cheat, shoot, and exploit one another into fast-talking oblivion (Jess Walker,The Boston Globe).
Denis Johnson (1949-2017)is the author of eight novels, one novella, one book of short stories, three collections of poetry, two collections of plays, and one book of reportage. His novel
Tree of Smokewon the 2007 National Book Award.
A quick, dirty, classically noir heist story from the NBA-winning author, set among killers, lowlifes and dangerous women in California.
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 nobody's 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 Johnson's. Jonathan Franzen
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