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en-wikipedia-org-2114		In the Beauty of the Lilies - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	1911	184	76	In her appraisal of Updike's work New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani wrote: "Mr. Updike's stunning and much underestimated 1996 epic, 'In the Beauty of the Lilies,' tackled an even wider swath of history [than his Rabbit Tetralogy]. Writing in The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani called the novel "dazzling". Critic James Wood called it a "complacent historical saga".[4] Writer and critic Joseph Bottum wrote in Commentary, "The story is perhaps a little sketchy, as though the book were an abstract for a novel rather than the finished thing, but it is a thoughtful and serious book, in places funny and in places sad, by a thoughtful and serious man, the prose master of his generation".[5] In The New Yorker, critic George Steiner called the novel "awesome," concluding, "Updike's genius, his place beside Hawthorne and Nabokov have never been more assured."[6] In 2015, Publishers Weekly ranked the novel among its "Ten Best John Updike Books".[7]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2114.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2114.txt