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003			PCN
005			20231222165526.0
008			150320s2015 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a 2015010131
020			_a9780374239213 (hardcover)
020			_z9781250097101
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dDLC
042			_apcc
050	0	0	_aPS3556.R352 _bP87 2015
082	0	0	_a813/.54 _223
100	1		_aFranzen, Jonathan.
245	1	0	_aPurity _cJonathan Franzen.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bFarrar, Straus and Giroux, _c2015.
300			_a563 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
520			_a"A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of Freedom Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother--her only family--is hazardous. But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother has always concealed her own real name, or how she can ever have a normal life. Enter the Germans. A glancing encounter with a German peace activist leads Pip to an internship in South America with The Sunlight Project, an organization that traffics in all the secrets of the world--including, Pip hopes, the secret of her origins. TSP is the brainchild of Andreas Wolf, a charismatic provocateur who rose to fame in the chaos following the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now on the lam in Bolivia, Andreas is drawn to Pip for reasons she doesn't understand, and the intensity of her response to him upends her conventional ideas of right and wrong. Purity is a dark-hued comedy of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder. The author of The Corrections and Freedom has created yet another cast of vividly original characters, Californians and East Germans, good parents and bad parents, journalists and leakers, and he follows their intertwining paths through landscapes as contemporary as the omnipresent Internet and as ancient as the war between the sexes. Jonathan Franzen is a major author of our time, and Purity is his edgiest and most searching book yet"-- _cProvided by publisher.
520			_a"A huge-canvased novel about identity, the internet, sexual politics, and love from the author of Freedom and The Corrections"-- _cProvided by publisher.
561			_5DLC
650		7	_aFICTION / Literary. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aFICTION / Family Life.
655		7	_aBlack humor (Literature)
710	2		_aGene Berry and Jeffrey Campbell Collection (Library of Congress) _5DLC
942			_2ddc _cLEISURE
999			_c1340 _d1340