In the Beauty of the Lilies - Couverture souple

Updike, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140255893 ISBN 13 : 9780140255898

Editeur : Penguin, 1997

Synopsis

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A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

“Dazzling . . . a book that forces us to reassess the American Dream and the crucial role that faith (and the longing for faith) have played in shaping the national soul.”—The New York Times
 
“Stirring and captivating and beautifully written . . . This is the Updike of the Rabbit books, who can take you uphill and down with his grace of vision, his gossamer language, and his merciful, ironic glance at the misery of the human condition.”—The Boston Globe

“Updike’s genius, his place beside Hawthorne and Nabokov have never been more assured.”—George Steiner, The New Yorker
From the Trade Paperback edition.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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. What follows is the saga of the Wilmot family, one wandering tapestry thread within the American century. This is the story of Clarence's postman son, of his granddaughter, Esther, whose prayers are always answered and who becomes a twentieth century goddess, and of her son, in whom the passion that has long simmered, hidden in the corners of American life, comes to a boil.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0140255893
• ISBN 13: 9780140255898
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 512