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A naked singularity, Sergio de la Pava

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"A Naked Singularity tells the story of Casi, a child of Colombian immigrants who lives in Brooklyn and works in Manhattan as a public defender--one who, tellingly has never lost a trial. Never. In the book, we watch what happens when his sense of justice and even his sense of self begin to crack--and how his world then slowly devolves. It's a huge, ambitious novel clearly in the vein of DeLillo, Foster Wallace, Pynchon, and even Melville, and it's told in a distinct, frequently hilarious voice, with a striking human empathy at its center. Its panoramic reach takes readers through crime and courts, immigrant families and urban blight, media savagery and media satire, scatology and boxing, and even a breathless heist worthy of any crime novel. If Infinite Jest stuck a pin in the map of mid-90s culture and drew our trajectory from there, A Naked Singularity does the same for the feeling of surfeit, brokenness, and exhaustion that permeates our civic and cultural life today. In the opening sentence of William Gaddis's A Frolic of His Own, a character sneers, 'Justice? You get justice in the next world. In this world, you get the law.' A Naked Singularity reveals the extent of that gap, and lands firmly on the side of those who are forever getting the law"--Provided by publisher
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
University of Chicago Press edition.
Extent
678 pages
Isbn
9780226141794
Instance
Label
A naked singularity
Title
A naked singularity
Statement of responsibility
Sergio de la Pava
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"A Naked Singularity tells the story of Casi, a child of Colombian immigrants who lives in Brooklyn and works in Manhattan as a public defender--one who, tellingly has never lost a trial. Never. In the book, we watch what happens when his sense of justice and even his sense of self begin to crack--and how his world then slowly devolves. It's a huge, ambitious novel clearly in the vein of DeLillo, Foster Wallace, Pynchon, and even Melville, and it's told in a distinct, frequently hilarious voice, with a striking human empathy at its center. Its panoramic reach takes readers through crime and courts, immigrant families and urban blight, media savagery and media satire, scatology and boxing, and even a breathless heist worthy of any crime novel. If Infinite Jest stuck a pin in the map of mid-90s culture and drew our trajectory from there, A Naked Singularity does the same for the feeling of surfeit, brokenness, and exhaustion that permeates our civic and cultural life today. In the opening sentence of William Gaddis's A Frolic of His Own, a character sneers, 'Justice? You get justice in the next world. In this world, you get the law.' A Naked Singularity reveals the extent of that gap, and lands firmly on the side of those who are forever getting the law"--Provided by publisher
Summary
Casi, the child of Colombian immigrants, lives in Brooklyn but works in Manhattan as a public defender. Casi has never lost a trial, but then his world ruptures when a case goes bad. Increasingly disillusioned, the young lawyer finds himself involved in a scheme that might be the perfect crime--or his undoing
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10106734
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ICU/DLC
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Pava, Sergio de la
Dewey number
813/.6
Index
no index present
Literary form
fiction
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  • Legal stories
  • Public defenders
  • Practice of law
  • Criminal law
  • Criminal law
  • Legal stories
  • Practice of law
  • Public defenders
  • New York (State)
  • Roman
  • Amerikanisches Englisch
  • Legal stories
  • Public defenders
  • New York legal system
  • Criminal law
Target audience
adult
Label
A naked singularity, Sergio de la Pava
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Publication
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volume
Carrier category code
nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
ocn744978518
Dimensions
23 cm
Edition
University of Chicago Press edition.
Extent
678 pages
Isbn
9780226141794
Isbn Type
(paperback)
Lccn
2011032343
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
n
System control number
(OCoLC)744978518
Label
A naked singularity, Sergio de la Pava
Publication
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
ocn744978518
Dimensions
23 cm
Edition
University of Chicago Press edition.
Extent
678 pages
Isbn
9780226141794
Isbn Type
(paperback)
Lccn
2011032343
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
n
System control number
(OCoLC)744978518

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