John Updike

In the Beauty of the Lilies

New York: Knopf, 1996. First edition. Hardback. Fine, unread example in equally fine dust jacket. First trade edition. Hardcover. 491 pp. Novel of a Paterson, New Jersey family that beings in 1910 and follows them over four decades. Clarence Wilmot, a Presbyterian minister, loses his faith, becomes an encyclopedia salesman and motion picture addict. The family moves to Delaware where his son becomes a mailman, and his son in turn makes his way back to the fiery fundamentals of Protestant piety. Fine / fine. Item #E20346B
ISBN: 9780679446408

Price: $19.95