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The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of Freedom and The CorrectionsPip 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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‘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

Purity Jonathan Franzen

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      Publisher Harper Collins
      Imprint Fourth Estate Ltd
      Published 2 August 2016
      ISBN-13 9780007532780
      978-0007532780
      ISBN-10 0007532784
      Also in:
      Contemporary Fiction Crime & Thrillers

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of Freedom and The CorrectionsPip 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.

      Trade Review

      ‘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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