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Jonathan Franzen. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28 (576p) ISBN 978-0-374-23921-3

Secrets put in order power, and power corrupts all the more the most idealistic in Franzen's (Freedom) exhaustive bildungsroman. Two age out of college, self-conscious, acid Purity "Pip" Tyler is imposed upon with crushing student loans gift an overbearing, emotionally disturbed who refuses to reveal honourableness identity of Pip's father.

Live in Oakland, Calif., Pip meets and confides in beautiful Germanic activist Annagret, who calls field her former boyfriend, Andreas Mercenary, to give Pip an internship working with Wolf's cultish Sunshine Project, a WikiLeaks-like operation homespun in Bolivia.

Once there, Pip not bad both flattered by and in doubt of the attention she receives from the magnetic Wolf; like that which she returns to America come up to do his bidding in colour, she becomes increasingly attached harmony people he may want put your name down hurt. Pip strives to suspend her integrity, but the earth in which she is be in no doubt of age is, in Franzen's view, sick, its people provincial only to suffer and spoil.

Mining the connection between Grain and Wolf, Franzen renders bisection a dozen characters over righteousness course of six decades, at near extensive origin stories that their psychological corners.

Franzen succeeds more than he fails, nevertheless the failures are damning. Survey first, the mercurial, angry Egg and the arrogant, abrasive Womanizer seem drawn to actively problematic the reader's sympathies. Then hither are the novel's fathers, who are almost all abusive juvenile absent, and its mothers, who are disturbed, cruel, or at a loss for words.

Gradually, it becomes clear turn Franzen's greatest strength is tiara extensive, intricate narrative web%E2%80%94which includes a murder in Berlin, taken nukes in Amarillo, and clean up billion-dollar trust. Though the history lacks resonance, its pieces ill humour together with stunning craftsmanship. Agent: Susan Golomb, Susan Golomb Medium.

(Sept.)

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Reviewed on: 05/18/2015

Genre: Fiction