A Naked Singularity - Hardcover

De La Pava, Sergio

4.13

2,702 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0857052802 ISBN 13: 9780857052803

Publisher: MacLehose Press, 2013

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Casi is a hotshot public defender working on the front line of America's War on Drugs. So far he's on the winning side. He's never lost a case. But nothing lasts forever, and pride like his has a long way to fall. Funny, smart and always surprising, A Naked Singularity speaks a language all of its own and reads like nothing else ever written. Casi's beautiful mind and planetary intelligence make him an inimitable and unforgettable narrator. In De La Pava's hands, the labyrinthine miseries of the New York Justice System are as layered and diabolical as Dante's nine circles of Hell. But the Devil doesn't hog the best lines. There are plenty here to go around.

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Review:

'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)

From the Back Cover:

WINNER OF THE PEN/ROBERT W BINGHAM PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE.
Casi is a hotshot public defender working on the front line of American's war on drugs. So far he's on the winning side. He's never lost a case. But nothing lasts forever, and pride like his has a long way to fall. When his hot streak is cut short by a lost cause, he turns his planetary intelligence to new pursuits - a pro bono quest to save a mentally impaired inmate from death row, and a Faustian pact to execute the perfect crime...

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