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In the Beauty of the Lilies
First edition
AuthorJohn Updike
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreChristian fiction
PublisherAlfred A. Knopf
Publication date
1996
Media typePrint
Pages491
AwardsAmbassador Book Award
ISBN9780679446408
OCLC906666002

In the Beauty of the Lilies is a 1996 novel by John Updike. It takes its title from a line of the abolitionist song "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." The novel received the 1997 Ambassador Book Award for Fiction.

In The New York Times, critic Michiko Kakutani called the work “dazzling ... a book that forces us to reassess the American Dream.”[1]

  1. ^ Kakutani, Michiko (12 January 1996). "Seeking Salvation on the Silver Screen". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 December 2020.

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