The Resource Purity, Jonathan Franzen
Purity, Jonathan Franzen
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The item Purity, Jonathan Franzen represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Yuma County Library District.This item is available to borrow from 4 library branches.
Resource Information
The item Purity, Jonathan Franzen represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Yuma County Library District.
This item is available to borrow from 4 library branches.
- Summary
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- "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"--
- "A huge-canvased novel about identity, the internet, sexual politics, and love from the author of Freedom and The Corrections"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 563 pages
- Isbn
- 9780374239213
- Label
- Purity
- Title
- Purity
- Statement of responsibility
- Jonathan Franzen
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- "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"--
- "A huge-canvased novel about identity, the internet, sexual politics, and love from the author of Freedom and The Corrections"--
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- Provided by publisher
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Franzen, Jonathan
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Young women
- Identity (Psychology)
- Interpersonal relations
- Label
- Purity, Jonathan Franzen
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn905450285
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 563 pages
- Isbn
- 9780374239213
- Lccn
- 2015010131
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
- (OCoLC)905450285
- Label
- Purity, Jonathan Franzen
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn905450285
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 563 pages
- Isbn
- 9780374239213
- Lccn
- 2015010131
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
- (OCoLC)905450285
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Main Library - Yuma County Library DistrictBorrow it2951 S. 21st Dr, Yuma, AZ, 85364, US32.7053273 -114.6461849
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Yuma County Somerton LibraryBorrow it240 Canal Street, Somerton, AZ, 85350, US32.6029445 -114.711958
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Yuma County Wellton LibraryBorrow it28790 San Jose Ave Wellton, Yuma, AZ, 85356, US32.6717624 -114.1445445
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