Книга: Franzen J. «Purity»
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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 chose to live as a recluse with an invented name, or how she’ll 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.. Jonathan Franzen’s Purity is... Формат: Мягкая бумажная, 563 стр.
ISBN: 9780008192518 |
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Purity — Исполнитель Slipknot … Википедия
Purity — Pu ri*ty, n. [OE. purete, purte, OF. purt[ e], F. puret[ e], from L. puritas, fr. purus pure. See {Pure}.] The condition of being pure. Specifically: (a) freedom from foreign admixture or deleterious matter; as, the purity of water, of wine, of… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Purity — is the absence of impurity in a substance.Purity may also refer to:* Abstinence from vices and/or abundance of virtue * Purity Dairies, A Nashville, Tennessee based dairy company * Purity Distilling Company, an alcohol manufacturer involved in… … Wikipedia
Purity — (Mararikulam,Индия) Категория отеля: 4 звездочный отель Адрес: East of Muhamma Police Station … Каталог отелей
purity — index honor (good reputation), integrity, rectitude Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
purity — early 13c., from O.Fr. purete, earlier purte (12c.), from L.L. puritatem (nom. puritas) cleanness, pureness, from L. purus (see PURE (Cf. pure)) … Etymology dictionary
