In the Beauty of the Lilies Paperback - 1997
by John Updike
Taking its title from the "Battle Hymn of the Republic", this book traces one family's profound journey through four generations--and across the spiritual landscape of 20th century America. It is perhaps John Updike's fullest and finest work of fiction.
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--Miami Herald
"AN IMPORTANT AND IMPRESSIVE 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
"STIRRING AND CAPTIVATING AND BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN . . . [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
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- Title In the Beauty of the Lilies
- Author John Updike
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 576
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Random House Trade, Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.
- Date 1997-01-21
- ISBN 9780449911211 / 0449911217
- Weight 0.89 lbs (0.40 kg)
- Dimensions 8.25 x 5.51 x 0.92 in (20.96 x 14.00 x 2.34 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Christian fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96097067
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- Entertainment Weekly, 02/13/2009, Page 60
- New York Times, 02/16/1997, Page 32
- Publishers Weekly, 11/11/1996, Page 0
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