Purity
Book description
The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of Freedom and The Corrections
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…
Why read it?
2 authors picked Purity as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I love the way Franzen develops characters—they get introduced, you form impressions of them, and then you find out that those impressions are wrong, or at least just superficial looks into much deeper and messier lives.
First of all: am I the only one who thinks Franzen looks a bit like Stephen King? This resemblance might very well be the only thing they have in common (aside from both making a living solely with their writing). English isn’t my native language, so it probably took me a bit longer than the average native speaker to read his (long!) book - which is a stark contrast to Follett’s, and not only in terms of prose style. I had no idea that Franzen studied in Germany and is fluent in my mother language. I only looked this up…
From Daniela's list on East Germany from an insider's point of view.
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