{"product_id":"2940170844579","title":"A Naked Singularity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Naked Singularity\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the book we hear 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 listeners 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, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Naked Singularity\u003c\/i\u003e does the same for the feeling of surfeit, brokenness, and exhaustion that permeates our civic and cultural lives today. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the opening sentence of William Gaddis' \u003ci\u003eA Frolic of His Own\u003c\/i\u003e, 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":"Recorded Books, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47115685331184,"sku":"2940170844579","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170844579_p0.jpg?v=1763719487","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170844579","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}