Purity: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.93 (992 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1427262195 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 369 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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An Best Book of September 2015: Purity takes many forms in Franzen’s new novel—to begin with, it is the name of the book’s title character. It eventually becomes clear that nearly every character is chasing purity in some form—whether pursuing Pip herself or some platonic ideal—and Franzen ties up the ends in a way that is clean and satisfying but will have you thinking about Purity long after you have finished the book. “Pip,” as she is more commonly known, is
"Great Expectations - Fulfilled" according to Jill I. Shtulman. When an author names his main character Pip – a name immortalized in Charles Dickens masterwork, he is almost baiting the reader to make comparisons, so let’s get those out of the way first. Here, Pip is female, not male, although she’s still mesmerized by a charismatic flame (Andreas, a Julian Assange type anti-her. A Novel of Big Ideas, or merely a Big Novel? It may sound strange to say so, but Jonathan Franzen has written one of those big blockbuster novels that you used to get in airports. The kind that can say: "From the slums of Oakland to the jungles of Bolivia," or "Spanning a turbulent half-century from STASI-era East Germany to the age of WikiLeaks." Or perhaps "A story of murder . sb-lynn said Enjoyed this and it felt epic, but.. Brief summary and review, no spoilers.I am going to be brief with the plot description because as you progress from section to section, you do not know who's narrating or who's story you are going to be reading, and some of these are characters first mentioned in the previous chapter. I know many people don't care about these type sp
A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of FreedomYoung Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. Purity is the most daring and penetrating book yet by one of the major writers of our time.. 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. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she