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Purity

Paperback • 2016 • English • 1. edition

Purity

By Jonathan Franzen

10 Ratings • 4.0 of 5

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About the book

The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of Freedom and The Corrections 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 Ge...Show more

Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
Narrative theme: Identity / belonging

Book details

ISBN

9781250116185

Publisher

Vigmostad & Bjørke AS (VB Import)

Published year

2016

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Purity

Format

Paperback

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