Naked Singularity A Novel

Name: Naked Singularity A Novel
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ISBN: 9780226141794

ISBN-10: 0226141799

ISBN-13: 9780226141794

Edition: 2012

Authors: Sergio De La Pava

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A Naked Singularitytells 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’' 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,…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/19/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 688
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 1.42" tall
Weight: 1.980
Language: English

Sergio de la Pava is the author of the novels A Naked Singularity and Personae. A Naked Singularity won the PEN/Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction in 2013 and was shortlisted for the inaugural Folio Prize in the UK, Personae received a starred review in Publisher's Weekly and extraordinary critical praise. De la Pava is an attorney in New York City where he represents indigent defendants and advocates for large-scale criminal justice reforms.