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In the Beauty of the Lilies is a 1996 novel by John Updike. It takes its title from a line of the abolitionist song " The Battle Hymn of the Republic ." The novel received the 1997 Ambassador Book Award for Fiction .
- John Updike
- 1996
1 de jan. de 1996 · One hot afternoon in 1910, the Reverend Clarence Wilmot, standing in the rectory of the Fourth Presbyterian Church, experiences the last vestiges of his faith departing. True to this revelation, Clarence abandons the pulpit and becomes an encyclopedia salesman.
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21 de jan. de 1997 · In the Beauty of the Lilies by John Updike explores ideology and the intense effects of releasing beliefs as well as clinging to them. Updike drops the reader into the life of the Wilmot family and follows the family through four generations of belief and life demonstrating the strong effects of society on belief and belief on society.
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- John Updike
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- Random House Trade Paperbacks
In the Beauty of the Lilies. John Updike. G.K. Hall, 1996 - Fiction - 652 pages. Taking its title from the Battle Hymn of the Republic, this book traces one family's profound journey...
16 de jan. de 1996 · In the Beauty of the Lilies by John Updike explores ideology and the intense effects of releasing beliefs as well as clinging to them. Updike drops the reader into the life of the Wilmot family and follows the family through four generations of belief and life demonstrating the strong effects of society on belief and belief on society.
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- John Updike
About In the Beauty of the Lilies. Faith ultimately bursts into flame as 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.
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.”
