6/3/2023 0 Comments Purity by Jonathan Franzen![]() ![]() The author of The Corrections and Freedom has imagined a world of vividly original characters, and he follows their intertwining paths through landscapes as contemporary as the omnipresent Internet and as ancient as the war between the sexes. For those of you sitting in the back, purity is the theme of this novel, and. To her it was the most shameful word in the language. Now on the lam in Bolivia, Andreas is drawn to Pip for reasons she doesn’t understand, and she is equally conflicted about her attraction to him. The word purity made Pip shudder, Franzen writes. TSP is the brainchild of Andreas Wolf, a charismatic provocateur. 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.Ī 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. ![]() 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. ![]()
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