This novel contains multitudes: love, murder, marital terrorism, embarrassing sex, nasty sex, solo sex, the Stasi, internet leaks, missing nuclear weapons, missing fathers, overbearing mothers and a variety of interesting bowel disorders. What you won’t find much of is purity. Just as Franzen’s previous novel Freedom was really a book about inescapable constraint, so Purity is really a book about inevitable corruption (which makes it a considerably more enticing prospect).
Those who read The Corrections and Freedom will know how Franzen novels work: people, often well intentioned, launch themselves into the world with idealistic conviction (To be free! To be pure!) and are snapped back to misery by the tethers of family and society. His are blackly comic books about the souring of great expectations.
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576pp, FOURTH ESTATE
Those who read The Corrections and Freedom will know how Franzen novels work: people, often well intentioned, launch themselves into the world with idealistic conviction (To be free! To be pure!) and are snapped back to misery by the tethers of family and society. His are blackly comic books about the souring of great expectations.More
576pp, FOURTH ESTATE
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