In the Beauty of the Lilies

In the Beauty of the Lilies

by John Updike
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 01/06/2006

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Taking its title from the "Battle Hymn of the Republic", IN THE BEAUTY OF THE LILIES traces one family's profound journey through four generations--and across the spiritual landscape of twentieth-century America. It is one of John Updike's fullest and finest work of fiction.

ISBN:
9780141922263
9780141922263
Category:
Classic fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
01-06-2006
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
John Updike

John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker.

His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009.

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