Purity A Novel Jonathan Franzen A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of Freedom 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 mother­her only family­is 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 world­including, Pip hopes, the secret of her FICTION 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 Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 9/1/2015 Bolivia, Andreas is drawn to Pip for reasons she doesn't understand, and the 9780374239213 | $28.00 Hardcover | 576 pages intensity of her response to him upends her conventional ideas of right and Carton Qty: 12 | 6 in W | 9 in H wrong. Brit., trans., 1st ser., dram.: Susan Golomb Purity is a grand story of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder. The Literary Agency author of The Corrections and Freedom has imagined a world of vividly original Audio: FSG characters­Californians and East Germans, good parents and bad parents, journalists and leakers­and he follows their intertwining paths through MARKETING landscapes as contemporary as the omnipresent Internet and as ancient as the Author Appearances war between the sexes. Purity is the most daring and penetrating book yet by National Publicity one ... National Advertising Library Marketing Campaign Jonathan Franzen is the author of four other novels, most recently Freedom and The Reading Group Guide Corrections, and five works of nonfiction and translation, including The Kraus Project and Advance Reader's Edition Farther Away, all published by FSG. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the German Akademie der Künste, and the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. ALSO AVAILABLE The Kraus Project: Essays by Karl Kraus PRAISE 9/2014 | 9781250056030 Trade Paperback | $18.00 / $0.00 Can. Praise for Freedom The Twenty­Seventh City: A Novel 11/2013 | 9781250046703 "A masterpiece of American fiction." ­­The New York Times Paperback | $18.00 / $20.00 Can. 2 FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX | SEPTEMBER 2015 Mysteries of the Mall And Other Essays Witold Rybczynski A deep exploration of modern life that examines our cities, public places, and homes Following How Architecture Works, Witold Rybczynski casts a seasoned critical eye over the modern scene with Mysteries of the Mall. His subject is nothing less than the broad setting of our metropolitan world. In thirty­five discerning essays, Rybczynski ranges over subjects as varied as shopping malls, Central Park, the Paris opera house, and America's shrinking cities. Along the way, he examines our post­9/11 obsession with security, the revival of the big­city library, the rise of college towns, and our fascination with vacation homes, and he visits Disney's planned community of Celebration. By looking at contemporary architects as diverse as Frank Gehry, Moshe Safdie, ARCHITECTURE and Bing Thom, revisiting old masters such as Christopher Wren, Le Corbusier, and Frank Lloyd Wright, and considering such unsung innovators as Stanley H. Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 9/8/2015 Durwood, the inventor of the Cineplex, Rybczynski ponders the role of global 9780374269937 | $27.00 / $31.50 Can. Hardcover | 336 pages cities in an age of tourism and what places attract us in the modern city. Index | Carton Qty: 12 | 5.5 in W | 8.3 in H Mysteries of the Mall is required reading for anyone curious about the modern Brit., trans., 1st ser., dram.: The Wylie Agency world and how it came to be that way. Audio: FSG Witold Rybczynski has written about architecture for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The MARKETING New York Times, and Slate. Among his award­winning books are Home, The Most Beautiful House in the World, and A Clearing in the Distance, which won the J. 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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 | 64 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. Brit., trans., audio: FSG His most recent book of prose is The Art of Daring: Risk, Restlessness, Imagination. Phillips 1st ser., dram.: Carl Phillips teaches at Washington University in St. Louis. MARKETING PRAISE Poetry Advertising Campaign Praise for Carl Phillips ALSO AVAILABLE "I have a candidate for the author of the most interesting contemporary English sentences, and he is not primarily a prose writer: the American poet Carl The Art of Daring: Risk, Restlessness, Phillips . Like Emily Dickinson, Phillips is always taking in the minute Imagination metamorphoses of his surroundings." ­Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker 8/2014 | 9781555976811 Trade Paperback | $12.00 / $14.00 Can. Silverchest: Poems 4/2014 | 9780374534332 Trade Paperback | $14.00 / $16.00 Can. 4 FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX | SEPTEMBER 2015 Wilberforce A Novel H. S. Cross An unforgettable novel of adolescent lust and cruelty At St. Stephen's Academy, the students are on the verge of revolt. While the younger boys plot an insurrection, the older ones are preoccupied with sneaking out­of­bounds, thrashing each other, tearing each other's clothes off­ or some combination of the three. Morgan Wilberforce, for one, can't take it any longer. Everything Wilberforce touches turns to disaster in his desperate attempts to fight off desire, boredom, and angst. He knocks himself unconscious tackling the unattainable Spaulding on the rugby pitch, his headmaster detests him for crimes committed years ago, and even his closest friends are subjecting him to physical tortures normally reserved for juniors. When an accident at the FICTION boarding school leaves him with more suffering than he could have fathomed, he finds himself alone and adrift. And the workaday charms of cricket practice, Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 9/15/2015 Victorian pornography, canings from classmates, and fumbling with the pub­ 9780374290108 | $27.00 / $31.50 Can. Hardcover | 464 pages keeper's daughter can only do so much to mend a broken body and a restless Carton Qty: 16 | 6 in W | 9 in H heart. Brit., 1st ser., audio: FSG Stylishly inventive, H. S. Cross has crafted an imaginative, ritualistic world of Trans., dram.: Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency men and boys narrowly confined by tradition and authority. Wilberforce is an MARKETING indelible portrait of a young man caught between lust and cruelty, grief and God, frustrated love and abject longing­and a tour de force that heralds the Author Appearances arrival of a brilliant new novelist. National Publicity National Advertising H. S. Cross was born in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, and studied at Harvard University. Reading Group Guide Wilberforce is her debut novel. She has taught at Friends Seminary and lives in New York. 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