The Resource Purity : [a novel], Jonathan Franzen, (sound recording)
Purity : [a novel], Jonathan Franzen, (sound recording)
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The item Purity : [a novel], Jonathan Franzen, (sound recording) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Des Moines Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- "A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of Freedom 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 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 who rose to fame in the chaos following the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now on the lam in Bolivia, Andreas is drawn to Pip for reasons she doesn't understand, and the intensity of her response to him upends her conventional ideas of right and wrong. Purity is a dark-hued comedy of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder. The author of The Corrections and Freedom has created yet another cast of vividly original characters, Californians and East Germans, good parents and bad parents, journalists and leakers, and he follows their intertwining paths through landscapes as contemporary as the omnipresent Internet and as ancient as the war between the sexes. Jonathan Franzen is a major author of our time, and Purity is his edgiest and most searching book yet"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 20 audio discs (approximately 25 hours)
- Note
-
- Compact disc
- Duration: 25:00:00
- Includes a bonus conversation with the author
- Isbn
- 9781427262196
- Label
- Purity : [a novel]
- Title
- Purity
- Title remainder
- [a novel]
- Statement of responsibility
- Jonathan Franzen
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of Freedom 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 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 who rose to fame in the chaos following the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now on the lam in Bolivia, Andreas is drawn to Pip for reasons she doesn't understand, and the intensity of her response to him upends her conventional ideas of right and wrong. Purity is a dark-hued comedy of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder. The author of The Corrections and Freedom has created yet another cast of vividly original characters, Californians and East Germans, good parents and bad parents, journalists and leakers, and he follows their intertwining paths through landscapes as contemporary as the omnipresent Internet and as ancient as the war between the sexes. Jonathan Franzen is a major author of our time, and Purity is his edgiest and most searching book yet"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- TOH
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Franzen, Jonathan
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Form of composition
- not applicable
- Format of music
- not applicable
- LC call number
- PS3556.R352
- LC item number
- P87 2015ab
- Literary text for sound recordings
- fiction
- PerformerNote
- Read by Jenna Lamia, Dylan Baker, and Robert Petkoff
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
-
- Lamia, Jenna
- Baker, Dylan
- Petkoff, Robert
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Young women
- Identity (Psychology)
- Interpersonal relations
- Black humor
- Books on compact disc, Unabridged
- Transposition and arrangement
- not applicable
- Label
- Purity : [a novel], Jonathan Franzen, (sound recording)
- Note
-
- Compact disc
- Duration: 25:00:00
- Includes a bonus conversation with the author
- Capture and storage technique
- digital storage
- Carrier category
- audio disc
- Carrier category code
-
- sd
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Configuration of playback channels
- stereophonic
- Content category
- spoken word
- Content type code
-
- spw
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in.
- Dimensions
-
- 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm. diameter
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 20 audio discs (approximately 25 hours)
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9781427262196
- Kind of cutting
- not applicable
- Kind of disc cylinder or tape
- mass produced
- Kind of material
- plastic with metal
- Media category
- audio
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- s
- Other control number
- 9781427262196
- Other physical details
- digital, CD audio
- Publisher number
- DD17526
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
- sound disc
- Speed
- 1.4m. per second (discs)
- System control number
-
- sky277706590
- (OCoLC)910571562
- 911061
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
- Label
- Purity : [a novel], Jonathan Franzen, (sound recording)
- Note
-
- Compact disc
- Duration: 25:00:00
- Includes a bonus conversation with the author
- Capture and storage technique
- digital storage
- Carrier category
- audio disc
- Carrier category code
-
- sd
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Configuration of playback channels
- stereophonic
- Content category
- spoken word
- Content type code
-
- spw
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in.
- Dimensions
-
- 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm. diameter
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 20 audio discs (approximately 25 hours)
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9781427262196
- Kind of cutting
- not applicable
- Kind of disc cylinder or tape
- mass produced
- Kind of material
- plastic with metal
- Media category
- audio
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- s
- Other control number
- 9781427262196
- Other physical details
- digital, CD audio
- Publisher number
- DD17526
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
- sound disc
- Speed
- 1.4m. per second (discs)
- System control number
-
- sky277706590
- (OCoLC)910571562
- 911061
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
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