{"product_id":"a-naked-singularity-a-novel","title":"PRE-LOVED ~ A Naked Singularity: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e*ONE OF THE WALL STREET JOURNAL'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR*\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe mind-bending, brilliant, often hilarious PEN Award-winning classic novel of justice, the law, and the brutal gap between the two.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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 InfiniteJest 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Secret Shelves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42974322098274,"sku":"9780226141794","price":11.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0657\/1569\/9810\/files\/9780226141794.jpg?v=1780073887","url":"https:\/\/mysecretshelves.com\/products\/a-naked-singularity-a-novel","provider":"My Secret Shelves","version":"1.0","type":"link"}