A Naked Singularity - Couverture rigide

De La Pava, Sergio

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 143634199X ISBN 13 : 9781436341998

Editeur : Xlibris Corp, 2008

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

'Crime and Punishment as reimagined by the Coen Brothers' The Millions. (Millions)

'A fine encyclopedic romp in the Joyce / Pynchon / Wallace tradition' Miles Klee, The Notes. (Notes)

'A great American novel: large, ambitious, and full of talk' Alex Good, Toronto Star. (Toronto Star)

'Ambitious, affecting, intelligent, plangent, comic, kooky and impassioned. I've read a lot of novels this year, between judging the Man Booker prize and the Granta Best of Young British Novelists, and I've yearned for this kind of exuberant, precise fiction' Stuart Kelly, Guardian. (Guardian)

'If you like 'The Wire', if you like rewarding, difficult fiction, if you like literary, high-quality artistic and hilarious yet moving novels that are difficult to put down, I can't recommend A Naked Singularity enough' Scott Bryan Wilson, The Quarterly Conversation. (Quarterly Conversation)

'A propulsive, mind-bending experience ... a thrilling rejoinder to the tidy story arcs portrayed on television and in most crime fiction' Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal. (Wall Street Journal)

'Casi's voice is astonishing, cynical but compassionate, alive to the ridiculous and the pitiful and the horrific but never losing its commitment to morality' Lian Hearn. (Lian Hearn)

'Like 'The Wire' written by Voltaire ... Unputdownable' Robert Collins, Sunday Times. (Sunday Times)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Xlibris Corp
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 143634199X
• ISBN 13: 9781436341998
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 689