In the Beauty of the Lilies by John Updike

In the Beauty of the Lilies by John Updike

IT WIL LEAVE YOU STUNED AND BREATHLES. . . . With grand ambition, [Updike] not only tracks the fortunes and falls of an American family through four generations and eight decades but also creates a shimmering, celluloid portrait of the whole century as viewed through the metaphor of the movies.
--Miami Herald

AN IMPORTANT AND IMPRESIVE NOVEL: a novel that not only shows how we live today, but also how we got there. . . . A book that forces us to reassess the American Dream and the crucial role that faith (and the longing for faith) has played in shaping the national soul.
--The New York Times

STIRING AND CAPTIVATING AND BEAUTIFULY WRITEN . . . [This] new novel displays a depth and a narrative confidence that make one sigh with sweet anticipation. 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

AWESOME . . . Updike's genius, his place beside Hawthorne and Nabokov have never been more assured, or chilling.
--The New Yorker

POWERFUL.
--The Atlanta Journal Constitution

In 1954, John Updike graduated from Harvard College and spent a year at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford, England. He was a member of The New Yorker's staff from 1955 until 1957. He has won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for his works. Updike earned the Rea Prize for Short Fiction in 2006, and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for his Early Tales (1953-1975). In January 2009, he passed away.

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ISBN 13	9780679446408
ISBN 10	0679446400
Title	In the Beauty of the Lilies
Author	John Updike
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Alfred A. Knopf
Year published	1996-01-16
Number of pages	491
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