Nobody Move
A Novel

This is a spare, well-crafted crime novel with great laconic dialogue, believably seedy characters, and a satisfying--although far from pat--resolution.......more

Denis Johnson has always been comfortable with criminals, down-and-outers, outsiders, drug addicts, but this book is his first explicitly noir crime novel. It reminds me of the single books that other fiction writers have written, such as Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice or Robert Bolano's Savage Dete......more

Two word review: Very meh. Unexpected side effect during or after reading: Urge to read a better crime novel. New thing I learned from reading this book: Singers in barber shop quartets may not be as wholesome as they seem. General observations: The jacket notes on this book gave me heartburn right o......more

This was a damn good read. It combines the cheap thrills and casual violence of a typical noir with the perfectly crafted sentences and deft-characterization found in a literary novel. The book is brief, maybe too brief(my ARC copy was 195 pages set in giant type with massive swathes of blank border......more