In the Beauty of the Lilies by John Updike
This novel opens in 1910, as Clarence Wilmot, a Presbyterian minister, suddenly loses his faith and leaves the pulpit to become an encyclopaedia salesman. He also becomes a movie addict. The novel follows four generations of Wilmot's family through the 20th century.
JOHN UPDIKE was the author of more than sixty books, eight of them collections of poetry. His novels, including The Centaur, Rabbit Is Rich, and Rabbit at Rest, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in January 2009. CHRISTOPHER CARDUFF is a member of the staff of The Library of America and the editor of John Updike's posthumous volumes Higher Gossip, Always Looking, and The Collected Stories. He lives in Melrose, Massachusetts. BRAD LEITHAUSER is the author of sixteen books, the most recent of which is The Oldest Word for Dawn: New and Selected Poems. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and Iceland's Order of the Falcon, he is a professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and divides his time between Baltimore, Maryland, and Amherst, Massachusetts.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780241136539 |
| ISBN 10 | 0241136539 |
| Title | In the Beauty of the Lilies |
| Author | John Updike |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1996-04-25 |
| Number of pages | 512 |
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