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   In the Beauty of the Lilies is a 1996 novel by John Updike. It takes its title from a line of the abolitionist song " The Battle Hymn of the Republic ." The novel received the 1997 Ambassador Book Award for Fiction .

   • Author: John Updike

   • Publish Year: 1996

2. www.goodreads.com › book › showIn the Beauty of the Lilies by John Updike | Goodreads

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   Jan 1, 1996 · One hot afternoon in 1910, the Reverend Clarence Wilmot, standing in the rectory of the Fourth Presbyterian Church, experiences the last vestiges of his faith departing. True to this revelation, Clarence abandons the pulpit and becomes an encyclopedia salesman.

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4. www.kirkusreviews.com › book-reviews › john-updikeIN THE BEAUTY OF THE LILIES | Kirkus Reviews

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   Jan 1, 1996 · In tracing the private and public histories of four generations of the Wilmot family (originally) of Paterson, New Jersey, this ambitious and energetic, though occasionally muted, novel also delineates the growing secularization of American society in this century.

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5. www.amazon.com › Beauty-Lillies-John-Updike › dpIn the Beauty of the Lillies: Updike, John: 9780241136539 ...

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   Jan 1, 1996 · In the Beauty of the Lilies by John Updike explores ideology and the intense effects of releasing beliefs as well as clinging to them. Updike drops the reader into the life of the Wilmot family and follows the family through four generations of belief and life demonstrating the strong effects of society on belief and belief on society.

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   • Author: John Updike

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   Jan 16, 1996 · In the Beauty of the Lilies by John Updike explores ideology and the intense effects of releasing beliefs as well as clinging to them. Updike drops the reader into the life of the Wilmot family and follows the family through four generations of belief and life demonstrating the strong effects of society on belief and belief on society.

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7. www.penguinrandomhouse.com › books › 181894In the Beauty of the Lilies by John Updike: 9780449911211 ...

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   About In the Beauty of the Lilies. 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.

8. www.harvard.com › book › in_the_beauty_of_the_liliesIn the Beauty of the Lilies: A Novel - Harvard Book Store

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   Jan 21, 1997 · In the Beauty of the Lilies: A Novel. In the Beauty of the Lilies begins in 1910 and traces God’s relation to four generations of American seekers, beginning with Clarence Wilmot, a clergyman in Paterson, New Jersey.