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In the Beauty of the Lilies : A Novel by John Updike (1997, Trade Paperback)

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In the Beauty of the Lilies, Paperback by Updike, John, ISBN 0449911217, ISBN-13 9780449911211, Brand New, Free shipping in the US A critically acclaimed novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer traces one family's profound journey over four generations and across the spiritual landscape of twentieth-century America. Reprint.

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In the Beauty of the Lilies begins in 1910 and traces God's relation to four generations of American seekers, beginning with Clarence Wilmot, a clergyman in Paterson, New Jersey. He loses his faith but finds solace at the movies, respite from "the bleak facts of life, his life, gutted by God's withdrawal." His son, Teddy, becomes a mailman who retreats from American exceptionalism, religious and otherwise, into a life of studied ordinariness. Teddy has a daughter, Esther, who becomes a movie star, an object of worship, an All-American goddess. Her neglected son, Clark, is possessed of a native Christian fervor that brings the story full circle: in the late 1980s he joins a Colorado sect called the Temple, a handful of "God's elect" hastening the day of reckoning. In following the Wilmots' collective search for transcendence, John Updike pulls one wandering thread from the tapestry of the American Century and writes perhaps the greatest of his later novels.

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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0449911217
ISBN-13
9780449911211
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Book Title
In the Beauty of the Lilies : a Novel
Author
John Updike
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, Sagas, Literary
Publication Year
1997
Genre
Fiction

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Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
18.4 Oz

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"Dazzling . . . a book that forces us to reassess the American Dream and the crucial role that faith (and the longing for faith) have played in shaping the national soul."- The New York Times "Stirring and captivating and beautifully written . . . This is the Updike of the Rabbit books, who can take you uphill and down with his grace of vision, his gossamer language, and his merciful, ironic glance at the misery of the human condition."- The Boston Globe "Updike's genius, his place beside Hawthorne and Nabokov have never been more assured."-George Steiner, The New Yorker, "Dazzling . . . a book that forces us to reassess the American Dream and the crucial role that faith (and the longing for faith) have played in shaping the national soul."-- The New York Times "Stirring and captivating and beautifully written . . . This is the Updike of the Rabbit books, who can take you uphill and down with his grace of vision, his gossamer language, and his merciful, ironic glance at the misery of the human condition."-- The Boston Globe "Updike's genius, his place beside Hawthorne and Nabokov have never been more assured."--George Steiner, The New Yorker, "Dazzling . . . a book that forces us to reassess the American Dream and the crucial role that faith (and the longing for faith) have played in shaping the national soul."- The New York Times "Stirring and captivating and beautifully written . . . This is the Updike of the Rabbit books, who can take you uphill and down with his grace of vision, his gossamer language, and his merciful, ironic glance at the misery of the human condition."- The Boston Globe, "Dazzling . . . a book that forces us to reassess the American Dream and the crucial role that faith (and the longing for faith) have played in shaping the national soul."-- The New York Times "Stirring and captivating and beautifully written . . . This is the Updike of the Rabbit books, who can take you uphill and down with his grace of vision, his gossamer language, and his merciful, ironic glance at the misery of the human condition."-- The Boston Globe "Updike's genius, his place beside Hawthorne and Nabokov have never been more assured."--George Steiner, The New Yorker
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Trade
Number of Pages
576 Pages

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