Stated First Trade Edition (apparent 1st Knopf 1996 printing) hardcover with green cloth boards & unclipped dust jacket; not an ex-library book. Very light shelf wear; pages look clean & intact; former owner red stamp on fep.
According to a New York Times book review, John Updike's "In the Beauty of the Lilies" is "AN IMPORTANT AND IMPRESSIVE NOVEL: a novel that not only shows how we live today, but also how we got there. . . . A book that forces us to reassess the American Dream and the crucial role that faith (and the longing for faith) has played in shaping the national soul."
The novel charts the lives of a family from 1910 through four generations, showing readers an American dream that is translated into an obsession with God and the Moving Picture. Initially set in 1910 New Jersey, the patriarch, Paterson is a Presbyterian minister who suddenly loses his faith, leaves the pulpit and becomes a salesman. In the process, he becomes a movie addict as well.
From the Dust Jacket:
John Updike was born in 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954, worked for a few years on the staff of The New Yorker, and since 1957 has lived in Massachusetts. He is the father of four children and the author of some forty books, including collections of short stories, poems, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the American Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Rabbit at Rest was recently awarded the Howells Medal, by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, for the most distinguished work of American fiction of the last five years.
Details
ISBN: 0679446400
ISBN-13: 9780679446408
Pages: 491
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Date: January 1996
