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The Witches of Eastwick

The Witches of Eastwick

Updike, John

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General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $17.00

ISBN10: 0449912108
ISBN13: 9780449912102
Publisher: Random House Trade
Published: Aug 27 1996
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

John Updike is the great genial sorcerer of American letters [and] The Witches of Eastwick [is one of his] most ambitious works. . . . [A] comedy of the blackest sort.--The New York Times Book Review

Toward the end of the Vietnam era, in a snug little Rhode Island seacoast town, wonderful powers have descended upon Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie, bewitching divorcées with sudden access to all that is female, fecund, and mysterious. Alexandra, a sculptor, summons thunderstorms; Jane, a cellist, floats on the air; and Sukie, the local gossip columnist, turns milk into cream. Their happy little coven takes on new, malignant life when a dark and moneyed stranger, Darryl Van Horne, refurbishes the long-derelict Lenox mansion and invites them in to play. Thenceforth scandal flits through the darkening, crooked streets of Eastwick--and through the even darker fantasies of the town's collective psyche.

A great deal of fun to read . . . fresh, constantly entertaining . . . John Updike [is] a wizard of language and observation.--The Philadelphia Inquirer

Vintage Updike, which is to say among the best fiction we have.--Newsday

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