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 "IT WILL LEAVE YOU STUNNED AND BREATHLESS. . .
slender young seminarian many a headachy midnight back in Alexander Hall. In those student days, hungry for knowledge and fearless in his youthful sense of God's protection close at hand, he had plunged into the chilly Baltic sea of ...
Opening in 1910, this John Updike novel charts the lives of one family through four generations. It illustrates an America where a dream of perfection is translated into an obsession with God and the moving pictures.
It is one of John Updike's fullest and finest work of fiction.
In the Beauty of the Lilies
In the Beauty of the Lilies
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