In the Beauty of the Lilies

New York: Knopf, 1996. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5x1x9. 1st printing. Trade Paperback. Lightly rubbed. 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.