Purity A Novel Jonathan Franzen A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of Freedom Jonathan Franzen has done it again. 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 crashing at a squat in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother­­the only family she has­­ is hazardous. But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother has been masking her own real name, or how she can escape the dead end she finds herself in. Luck, it seems­­coupled with the tantalizing possibility of learning about her father­­leads Pip to an internship in South America with The Sunlight Project, FICTION an organization that hacks the powerful to expose their secrets. TSP is the brainchild of Andreas Wolf, a charismatic provocateur who rose to fame in the Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 9/1/2015 days after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now on the lam in Bolivia, Andreas is 9780374239213 | $28.00 Hardcover | 592 pages drawn to Pip for reasons she doesn't understand, and he disorients Pip's sense Carton Qty: 0 | 6 in W | 9 in H of right and wrong. Jonathan Franzen's Purity is a compelling drama of concealed identity, neurotic MARKETING fidelity, and murder. The author of The Corrections and Freedom takes us to rain­sodden Northern California, paranoia­ridden East Berlin, and paradisiacal Author Appearances Bolivia to explore the vagaries of radical politics, the tainted allure of the National Publicity National Advertising Information Age, and the unrelenting war between the sexes. Purity is another Library Marketing Campaign major achievement from one of the most provocative and richly satisfying Reading Group Guide novelists of our ... Advance Reader's Edition Jonathan Franzen is the author of four novels (Freedom, The Corrections, Strong Motion, ALSO AVAILABLE and The Twenty­Seventh City), two collections of essays (Farther Away and How to Be Alone), a personal history (The Discomfort Zone), and translations of Frank Wedekind (Spring The Kraus Project: Essays by Karl Kraus Awakening) and Karl Kraus (The Kraus Project), all published by FSG. He lives in New York 9/2014 | 9781250056030 City and Santa Cruz, California. Trade Paperback | $18.00 The Twenty­Seventh City: A Novel 11/2013 | 9781250046703 PRAISE Paperback | $18.00 / $20.00 Can. 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The territory of Reconnaissance is one where morals threaten to become merely "what the light falls through," "suffering [seems] in fact for nothing," and "all we do is maybe all we can do." In the face of this, Carl Phillips, reconsidering and unraveling what we think we know, maps out the contours of a world in revision, where truth lies captured at one moment and at the next goes free, transformed. These are poems of searing beauty, lit by hope and shadowed by it, from a poet whose work "reinstates the possibility of finding POETRY meaning in a world that is forever ready to revoke the sources of meaning in our lives" (Jonathan Farmer, Slate). Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 9/1/2015 9780374248284 | $23.00 / $26.99 Can. Hardcover | 80 pages Carl Phillips is the author of twelve books of poetry, including Silverchest, a finalist for the Carton Qty: 0 | 5.5 in W | 8.3 in H International Griffin Prize, and Double Shadow, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. 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FSG First Look Program 5 FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX | SEPTEMBER 2015 The Crime and the Silence Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne Anna Bikont; Translated from the Polish by Alissa Valles A monumental work of nonfiction on a wartime atrocity, its sixty­ year denial, and the impact of its truth Jan Gross's hugely controversial Neighbors was a historian's disclosure of the events in the small Polish town of Jedwabne on July 10, 1941, when the citizens rounded up the Jewish population and burned them alive in a barn. The massacre was a shocking secret that had been suppressed for more than sixty years, and it provoked the most important public debate in Poland since 1989. HISTORY From the outset, Anna Bikont reported on the town, combing through archives and interviewing residents who survived the war period. 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