Purity

Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com
Thu Aug 27 13:41:08 CDT 2015


Franzen had half-digested turd allusions in FREEDOM. "Shit, Money & The Word".

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Dave Monroe
<against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> "Franzen has said Purity is his riskiest novel yet, but I see it as
> his safest because of its entertainment enticements, including a stray
> nuclear warhead that might incinerate Amarillo if the bomb weren’t a
> red herring in the plot and a jejune parody of the rocket as sex
> object in Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow."
>
> http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/25/jonathan-franzen-s-icky-secrets.html
>
> Thanks, Doug Millison!
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