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1 online resource (1 audio file (27hr., 12 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Narrated by Luis Moreno. |
| Summary |
***Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Best Debut Novel of 2012 ***Wall Street Journal 10 Best Fiction Books of 2012 ***2014 Folio Prize Shortlist 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. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Legal stories.
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Public defenders -- Fiction.
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Practice of law -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
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Criminal law -- Fiction.
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Literature.
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| Added Author |
Moreno, Luis. Narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781490627649 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1490627642 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT13525772 |
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