description: 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. 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.
language: English
title: In Beauty of the Lilies
titlecomplete: In Beauty of the Lilies
genres: American, Classics, Religion, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, 20th Century, Fiction
ratings_count: 2074
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Ambassador Book Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Random House Value Publishing