In the Beauty of the Lilies by Updike, John

In the Beauty of the Lilies (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780449911211)

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In the Beauty of the Lilies by Updike, John

In the Beauty of the Lilies

$18.00
In the Beauty of the Lilies by Updike, John

In the Beauty of the Lilies

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: John Updike
ISBN-10: 0449911217
ISBN-13: 9780449911211
Publisher: Random House Trade
Language: English
Published: 01/21/1997
Pages: 576
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.51w x 0.92d
Award: Ambassador Book Awards - Winner

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 02/16/1997 pg. 32
Publishers Weekly 11/11/1996
Entertainment Weekly 02/13/2009 pg. 60
By John Updike
By John Updike
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John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009.

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