John Updike: Novels 1996–2000 (LOA #365)
In the Beauty of the Lilies / Gertrude and Claudius / Rabbit Remembered
$97.27
- Hardcover
960 pages
- Release Date
12 April 2023
Summary
The capstone volume of the Library of America edition of John Updike’s novels contains some of the master stylist and social observer’s most ambitious works.
In the Beauty of the Lilies (1996) opens in 1910, when Clarence Wilmot, a Presbyterian minister in Paterson, NJ, experiences a devastating loss of faith. This moment of crisis sets in motion an eighty-year, multigenerational saga whose subject is nothing less than the American Century and modernity itself, seen through t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781598537444 |
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| ISBN-10: | 159853744X |
| Author: | John Updike, Christopher Carduff |
| Publisher: | The Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 960 |
| Release Date: | 12 April 2023 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 208mm x 134mm |
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About The Author
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. He was the author of more than sixty books, including collections of short stories, poems, essays, and criticism. His novels won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle, and the Howells Medal, among other honors. He died in 2009.
Christopher Carduff is the Books Editor of the Wall Street Journal. He is editor of John Updike’s posthumous collections Higher Gossip (essays & criticism), Always Looking (writings on art), Selected Poems, and Collected Stories, and is also the editor of the Library of America editions of William Maxwell and John Updike.
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