01133cam a2200265 4500 547133754 TxAuBib 20100322120000.0 010816s1996||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 95-23467 9780679446408 $25.95 0679446400 $25.95 (BRO) TxAuBib Updike, John. In the beauty of the lilies / John Updike. New York : A.A. Knopf, 1996. 491 p. John Updike's seventeenth novel begins in 1910, and traces God's relation to four generations of an American family, beginning with Clarence Wilmot, a Presbyterian clergyman in Paterson, New Jersey. He loses his faith, and becomes an encyclopedia salesman and a motion-picture addict. The remainder of Clarence's family moves to the small town of Basingstoke, Delaware, where his cautious son, Teddy, becomes a mailman.... 20100322. Clergy Fiction. Cults Fiction. New England Fiction. Religious fiction. TXKDM