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www-nytimes-com-7301		BOOKS OF THE TIMES;Seeking Salvation On the Silver Screen - The New York Times			.html	text/html	1575	71	64	BOOKS OF THE TIMES;Seeking Salvation On the Silver Screen The New York Times Now, in his dazzling new novel, "In the Beauty of the Lilies," Mr. Updike takes on an even more daunting project: to chart the fortunes of an American family through four generations and some 80 years, and in doing so, create a portrait of the country, from its nervous entry into the 20th century to its stumbling approach to the millennium. These existential anxieties culminate in the opening pages of "The Lilies," when the progenitor of Mr. Updike's American family, the Rev. Clarence Arthur Wilmot, suffers an acute spiritual crisis. In tracing the history of the Wilmot family, from Clarence, who trades the pulpit for an anonymous seat in a dark theater, to Clark, who becomes the star in a bloody shootout shown on the evening news, Mr. Updike has written an important and impressive novel: a novel that not only shows how we live today, but also how we got there.	./cache/www-nytimes-com-7301.html	./txt/www-nytimes-com-7301.txt