Purity: a novel
(Book)
Author:
Published:
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Format:
Book
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Desc:
563 pages ; 24 cm
Status:
Essex Adult Fiction
FRANZEN
Description
"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."--
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Durham Adult Fiction
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Franzen, Jonathan (Purity)
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FIC FRANZEN
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FIC FRA
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West Haven Main Adult Fiction
FIC FRA
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West Haven Ora Mason Adult Fiction
FIC FRA
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Woodbridge Adult Fiction
FIC FRANZEN
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Language:
English
ISBN:
9780374239213
Notes
Description
"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."--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation (style guide)
Franzen, J. (2015). Purity: a novel. First edition. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Franzen, Jonathan. 2015. Purity: A Novel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Franzen, Jonathan, Purity: A Novel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
MLA Citation (style guide)Franzen, Jonathan. Purity: A Novel. First edition. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
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