In the Beauty of the Lilies by John Updike

In the Beauty of the Lilies

John Updike

512 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

fiction historical reflective sad slow-paced

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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 encyclop...

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