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In the Beauty of the Lilies

by John Updike

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Publisher Comments:

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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About the Author

John Updike was born in 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954, worked for a few years on the staff of The New Yorker, and since 1957 has lived in Massachusetts. He is the father of four children and the author of some forty books, including collections of short stories, poems, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the American Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Rabbit at Rest was recently awarded the Howells Medal, by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, for the most distinguished work of American fiction of the last five years.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780679446408
Author:
Updike, John
Publisher:
Knopf Publishing Group
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Family
Subject:
American fiction (fictional works by one author)
Subject:
Sagas
Subject:
Christian fiction
Subject:
Clergy
Subject:
Cults
Subject:
Religious fiction
Subject:
Domestic fiction
Subject:
Cults -- United States -- Fiction.
Subject:
Family -- Religious life -- United States -- Fiction.
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
Literature-A to Z
Subject:
Family saga
Copyright:
1996
Edition Number:
1st trade ed.
Edition Description:
Trade
Series Volume:
no. 404
Publication Date:
19960131
Binding:
HARDCOVER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
512
Dimensions:
8.61x5.93x1.63 in. 1.55 lbs.
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