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Purity

Franzen, Jonathan2015
Books, Manuscripts
Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland and that her relationship with her mother - her only family - is hazardous. But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother has always concealed her own real name, or how she can ever have a normal life. Enter the Germans. A glancing encounter with a German peace activist leads Pip to an internship in South America with The Sunlight Project, an organisation that traffics in all the secrets of the world - including, Pip hopes, the secret of her origins.
Main title:
Purity / Jonathan Franzen.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Fourth Estate, 2015.
Collation:
496 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780007532766 (hbk)
Dewey class:
813.6GAF
LC class:
PS3556.R352
Local class:
FICAFAFPBKF
Language:
English
BRN:
475461
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