491 pages
English language
Published Jan. 11, 1996 by A.A. Knopf.
In the beauty of the lilies
by John Updike
5 stars
(1 review)
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.
