Purity

[Dave Monroe]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/30/books/review/jonathan-franzen-purity-review.html

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 1:44 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> JONATHAN FRANZEN’S GREAT EXPECTATIONS
> How America’s foremost novelist became its leading public moralist.
>
> http://www.vulture.com/2015/08/jonathan-franzen-purity-public-moralist.html
>
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 11:25 AM, 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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