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In the Beauty of the Lilies by John Updike

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Name: John Updike
Birth Date: March 18, 1932
Place of Birth: Shillington, Pennsylvania, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: author, poet

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Biography of John (Hoyer) Updike
19205 words, approx. 64 pages
[This entry was updated by Donald J. Greiner (University of South Carolina) from his entry in DLB 143: American Novelists Since World War II, Third Series, pp. 250-276.] A reader would be hard pressed to name a contemporary author other than John Updike...
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Biography of John (Hoyer) Updike
19166 words, approx. 63.9 pages
A reader would be hard pressed to name a contemporary author other than John Updike whose work is more in tune with the way most Americans live. Unconcerned with apocalypse in his fiction, undeterred by the universal absurdity that threatens to negate th...
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Biography of John (Hoyer) Updike
14259 words, approx. 47.5 pages
While his stature as a short-story writer may be perpetually overshadowed by the novelistic achievements of the Rabbit tetralogy--Rabbit, Run (1960), Rabbit Redux (1971), Rabbit Is Rich (1981), and Rabbit at Rest (1990)--John Updike has exhibited a susta...
 


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In the Beauty of the Lilies Information
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In the Beauty of the Lilies is a 1997 novel by John Updike. Beginning in 1910 and ending in 1990, it covers four generations of the Wilmot family, tying its fortunes to both the decline of the Christian faith and the rise of Hollywood in twentieth...


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The Economist (US)
In the Beauty of the Lilies.
02/24/1996: 811 words, approx. 3 pages
IN THE BEAUTY OF THE LILIES. By John Updike. Alfred Knopf; 491 pages; $25.95. Penguin; Pounds 16 IN HIS four "Rabbit" novels, John Updike caught up with Harry (Rabbit) Angstrom at four stages of life. In his latest work of fiction, he...
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World Literature Today
In the Beauty of the Lilies. (book reviews)
03/22/1998: 666 words, approx. 2 pages
John Updike. In the Beauty of the Lilies. New York. Fawcett Columbine/Knopf. 1996. 491 pages. $25.95 ($12.95 paper). ISBN 0-449-91121-7. -----. New York. Knopf. 1997. 334 pages. $25. ISBN 0-375-40006-0. John Updike's seventeenth novel, In the Beauty of the Lilies, covers...
 


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