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Purity : a novel, Jonathan Franzen

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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 chose to live as a recluse with an invented name, or how she'll 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 grand story of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder. The author of The Corrections and Freedom has imagined a world 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. Purity is the most daring and penetrating audiobook yet by one of the major writers of our time. Includes a bonus conversation with the author
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eng
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Unabridged.
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1 online resource (1 sound file (24 hr., 59 min., 59 sec.))
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Includes a bonus conversation with the author
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9781427274786
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Purity : a novel
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Purity
Title remainder
a novel
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Jonathan Franzen
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Language
eng
Summary
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 chose to live as a recluse with an invented name, or how she'll 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 grand story of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder. The author of The Corrections and Freedom has imagined a world 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. Purity is the most daring and penetrating audiobook yet by one of the major writers of our time. Includes a bonus conversation with the author
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technical information on music
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Franzen, Jonathan
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Produced by Laura Wilson
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813/.54
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LC call number
PS3556.R352
LC item number
P87 2015ab
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fiction
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Read by Jenna Lamia, Dylan Baker, and Robert Petkoff
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Purity : a novel, Jonathan Franzen
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Includes a bonus conversation with the author
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Unabridged.
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1 online resource (1 sound file (24 hr., 59 min., 59 sec.))
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online
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9781427274786
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Purity : a novel, Jonathan Franzen
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Publication
Note
Includes a bonus conversation with the author
Antecedent source
unknown
Capture and storage technique
digital storage
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online resource
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spoken word
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Edition
Unabridged.
Extent
1 online resource (1 sound file (24 hr., 59 min., 59 sec.))
File format
unknown
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online
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not applicable
Isbn
9781427274786
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(electronic audio bk.)
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not applicable
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not applicable
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unknown
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unknown
Media category
computer
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rdamedia
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digital.
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