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Publisher: Random House
Author: John Updike
ISBN: 9780449912102
Fiction, Fantasy
The Witches of Eastwick
by
John Updike
The Witches of Eastwick by
John Updike
Reviews
"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
Summary
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.