Purity

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The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of Freedom and The Corrections
Pip Tyler doesnt know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that shes saddled with student debt and a reclusive mother, but there are few clues as to who her father is or how shell 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 Im done, Ill miss its wit, its messed-up characters and its emotional complexity Financial Times

Franzens most fleet-footed, least self-conscious and most intimate novel yet Franzen has added a new octave to his voice New York Times

Author Bio

Jonathan Franzen's work includes four novels (The Twenty-Seventh City, Strong Motion, The Corrections, Freedom), two collections of essays (Farther Away, How To Be Alone), a memoir (The Discomfort Zone), and, most recently, The Kraus Project. He is recognised as one of the best American writers of our age and has won many awards. He lives in New York City and Santa Cruz, California.