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John Updike In The Beauty of The Lilies Paperback

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ISBN
9780449911211

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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.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0449911217
ISBN-13
9780449911211
eBay Product ID (ePID)
503576

Product Key Features

Book Title
In the Beauty of the Lilies : a Novel
Topic
Psychological, Sagas, Literary
Publication Year
1997
Language
English
Genre
Fiction
Author
John Updike
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
1in
Item Length
8.2in
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
Number of Pages
576 Pages

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