Title: In the beauty of the lilies
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.From the Hardcover edition.
Subjects: Fiction, Religious life, Family, Families, Cults, Christian fiction, Clergy, Domestic fiction, Literature, Romance, United states, fiction, Fiction, sagas, Large type books, New York Times reviewed, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Clergy, fiction
Places: United States