Jonathan Franzen on new novel 'Purity'

The author has sold millions of books and won the National Book Award. Time magazine put him on the cover with the headline "Great American Novelist." Franzen is the best-selling author of "The Corrections" and "Freedom." Franzen joins “CBS This Morning” to discuss and his new book, "Purity," which the Los Angeles Times calls "fierce writing."

[TheNewYorker]

Charlie!

Before the fall....

But he's back, interviewing people in the backyard of his manor house in Bellmore, Long Island on the south shore, in front of a small audience of neighbors and friends.

Charlie!

[CroMarduk]

Freedom is just awesome. I'm reading Purity now, and it's completely different than Freedom, almost like it's an altogether different writer, cant put it down...

[lisalasoya]

This speaker depicted part of this story -purity. But, it was more than the infidelity scene, more like the job the mother had at the nuclear plant is what got me. Lisa