The widows of Eastwick

Description

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.From the Paperback edition.

First Sentence

Those of us acquainted with their sordid and scandalous story were not surprised to hear, by way of rumors from the various localities where the sorceresses had settled after fleeing our pleasant town of Eastwick, Rode Island, that the husbands whom the three Godforsaken women had by their dark arts concocted for themselves did not prove durable.

Description

The three divorcées from John Updike’s The Witches of Eastwick—Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie—have left town, remarried, and become widows. Meeting again, they travel to Canada, Egypt, and China. and, finally, back to Eastwick. The diabolical Darryl Van Horne is gone, and their lovers of the time have aged or died, but among the local citizenry, there are still those who remember them, and wish them ill. (from publisher's copy)

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• Fiction

Other Editions

• The Widows of EastwickElectronic resourceKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group2008-01-01
• The widows of EastwickAlfred A. Knopf2008
• The widows of EastwickKnopf2008-01-01
• The Widows of EastwickeBookPenguin Group UK2009-01-01
• The widows of EastwickBallantine Books2009-01-01
• The widows of EastwickAlfred A. Knopf