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In the Beauty of the Lilies
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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In the Beauty of the Lilies
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) John Updike
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| Series | Penguin Modern Classics |
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:512 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129 |
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| Category/Genre | Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780141188577
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| Classifications | Dewey:813.54 |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Penguin Books Ltd
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| Imprint |
Penguin Classics
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| Publication Date |
1 June 2006 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
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 works of fiction.
Author Biography
John Updike was born in 1932, in hillington, Pennsylvania. 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, and since 1957 has lived in Massachusetts. He is the father of four children and the author of more than fifty books, including collections of short stories, poems, essays, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize (twice), the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Award, and the Howells Medal. A previous collection of essays, Hugging the Shore, received the 1983 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism.
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