The Widows of Eastwick

By: John Updike

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Paperback | 2 June 2009

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After traveling the world to exotic lands, Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie-now widowed but still witches-return to the Rhode Island seaside town of Eastwick, "the scene of their primes," site of their enchanted mischief more than three decades ago. Diabolical Darryl Van Horne is gone, and what was once a center of license and liberation is now a "haven of wholesomeness" populated by hockey moms and househusbands acting out against the old ways of their own absent, experimenting parents. With spirits still willing but flesh weaker, the three women must confront a powerful new counterspell of conformity. In this wicked and wonderful novel, John Updike is at his very best-a legendary master of literary magic up to his old delightful tricks.

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"Ingenious . . . This isn't writing. It is magic."--The New York Times Book Review "Dazzling Updikean prose . . . Here's a bet his work will keep fresh for generations, inciting laughter, wonder and sensuous shivers."--Los Angeles Times

"An amusing romp . . . made unexpectedly moving by the author's profundity and his renowned dexterity with language . . . [Updike is a] master of making us want to guffaw and weep in the same sentence."--The Houston Chronicle

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