In the Beauty of the Lilies
by: John Updike
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Category - Fiction / Family & Relationships
Format - Hardcover
Condition - Good
Listed - 2 months ago
Views - 2
Ships From - Georgia
Est. Publication Date - Jan 1996
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Faith ultimately bursts into flame as Updike's major new novel, charting the lives of one family through four generations, shows readers an America whose dream of perfection is translated into an obsession with God and the Moving Picture. Paterson, New Jersey, 1910: When a Presbyterian minister suddenly loses his faith and leaves the pulpit to become a salesman, he becomes a movie addict as well.
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In the Beauty of the Lilies
ISBN: 9780679446408
Publisher Description
Through four generations--from Clarence Wilmot, a lapsed minister-turned-encyclopedia salesman, in 1910, to the present day--one family pursues the American obsession with God and the unreal world of ...
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