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Pava, Sergio de la.
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Public defenders -- Fiction.
Practice of law -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
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A naked singularity ...
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A naked singularity / Sergio de la Pava.
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Pava, Sergio de la.
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2012, c2008.
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Public defenders -- Fiction.
Practice of law -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
Criminal law -- Fiction.
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9780226141794 (paperback : alkaline paper)
0226141799 (paperback : alkaline paper)
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678 pages ; 23 cm
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University of Chicago Press edition.
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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.
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