Purity

Author(s): Jonathan Franzen

General Fiction

A New York Times Bestselling AuthorA National Book Award-winning AuthorPip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that with $130,000 in student debt she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother is hazardous. She hasn't a clue who her father is, or why her mother lives as a recluse with an invented name. Then 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.


Product Information

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 Kunste, and the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

General Fields

  • : 9780007532780
  • : HarperCollins Publishers Limited
  • : Harper Element
  • : 01 July 2016
  • : 01 June 2016
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Jonathan Franzen
  • : Paperback