In The Beauty Of The Lilies
by John Updike
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- 1996 First Trade edition, a very good copy with a good dust jacket. Nos discoloring or fading, no writing and not clipped./Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0679446400
- ISBN 13
- 9780679446408
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About This Item
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.
"In the Beauty of the Lilies" is as ambitious as the title itself
Synopsis
Taking its title from the "Battle Hymn of the Republic", IN THE BEAUTY OF THE LILIES traces one family's profound journey through four generations—and across the spiritual landscape of twentieth-century America. It is one of John Updike's fullest and finest work of fiction.
Reviews
Great book. Classic Updike: lush prose, piercing observations of both the physical world and the human psyche, great sex, and terribly interesting examinations of various religious impulses. A booklover's book!
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- Title
- In The Beauty Of The Lilies
- Author
- John Updike
- Book Condition
- Used - 1996 First Trade edition, a very good copy with a good dust jacket. Nos discoloring or fading, no writing and not clipped.
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1996 First Trade edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0679446400
- ISBN 13
- 9780679446408
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1996
- Bookseller catalogs
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Siblings; Christmas Catalog;
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