{"product_id":"purity-9781250824035","title":"Purity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eBESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"So funny, so sage and above all so incandescently intelligent\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Chicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e), the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003ci\u003ePurity\u003c\/i\u003e is a grand story of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder, a daring and penetrating book from \"the most intelligent novelist of [his] generation\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e), Jonathan Franzen, the author of \u003ci\u003eCrossroads\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYoung 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 chose to live as a recluse with an invented name, or how she'll ever have a normal life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA glancing encounter with 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--including, Pip hopes, the secret of her origins. TSP is the brainchild of Andreas Wolf, a charismatic provocateur. Now on the lam in Bolivia, Andreas is drawn to Pip for reasons she doesn't understand, and she is equally conflicted about her attraction to him. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe author of \u003ci\u003eThe Corrections\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFreedom\u003c\/i\u003e has imagined a world of vividly original characters, and he follows their intertwining paths through landscapes as contemporary as the omnipresent Internet and as ancient as the war between the sexes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJonathan Franzen\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of five novels, including\u003ci\u003e The Corrections, Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCrossroads\u003c\/i\u003e, and five works of nonfiction, most recently \u003ci\u003eFarther Away\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe End of the End of the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e, all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He lives in Santa Cruz, California.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50646986227986,"sku":"9781250824035","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_10b6e080-9bab-4499-b9da-e78b2fd52616.jpg?v=1733191561","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/purity-9781250824035","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}