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John Updike : In the Beauty of the Lilies
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Author: John Updike
Title: In the Beauty of the Lilies
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Published in: English
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 491
Date: 1996-01-16
ISBN: 0679446400
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Weight: 1.05 pounds
Size: 1.51 x 5.76 x 8.51 inches
Edition: 1st
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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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When Clarence Wilmot, a Presbyterian clergyman, loses his faith and becomes an encyclopedia salesman, he opens the saga of one American family's twentieth-century relationship with God and all things religious.

Reviews: sferrando (USA: ID) (2008/02/17):
I really enjoyed this book. It is divided into 4 chapters, each focusing on different generations of the Wilmot family. It was difficult to get through the first chapter because I found it to be very boring, but once I did I really started to like the book and its characters. For anyone who likes stories about family and how we are tied together (whether we like it or not) should give this book a try.



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