The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of Freedom and The Corrections Pip Tyler doesn’t know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she’s saddled with student debt and a reclusive mother, but there are few clues as to who her father is or how she’ll ever have a normal life. Then she meets Andreas Wolf – internet outlaw, charismatic provocateur, a man who deals in secrets and might just be able to help her solve the mystery of her origins.
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The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of Freedom and The Corrections
‘Dazzling’ Guardian ‘Furiously funny’ Telegraph ‘Superbly readable, it is the work of a novelist at the height of his powers … This new work by an American master of realism has novelistic pleasures in abundance’ Sunday Times ‘Purity makes the most compelling reading, and Franzen reveals himself here to be even more a master than ever’ Evening Standard ‘It has kept me up every night for a week, and now that I’m done, I’ll miss its wit, its messed-up characters and its emotional complexity’ Financial Times ‘Franzen’s most fleet-footed, least self-conscious and most intimate novel yet … Franzen has added a new octave to his voice’ New York Times
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Competition: A Little Life; A Little Life; The Loney; The Old Ways; This Is London; London'S Overthrow. Jeffrey Eugenides;Michael Chabon; Elena Ferrante; Michel Houellebecq; Dylan Thomas; David Foster Wallace; Don DeLillo; Zadie Smith; Philip Roth; Michael Chabon;
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780007532780
Publisert
2016-08-02
Utgiver
Vendor
Fourth Estate Ltd
Vekt
410 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
37 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
576

Forfatter

Biographical note

Jonathan Franzen is the author of four other novels, most recently The Corrections and Freedom, and five works of nonfiction and translation, including Farther Away and The Kraus Project. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the German Akademie der Künste, and the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.