It\'s the marvelous story of three ambitious Witches living in a small New England town in the late 1960s, who find themselves quite under the spell of the new man in town, Darryl Van Horne, whose hot tub is the scene of some rather bewitching delights.
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. . . fresh, constantly entertaining . . .
A great deal of fun to read .
Thenceforth scandal flits through the darkening, crooked streets of Eastwick--and through the even darker fantasies of the town\'s collective psyche.
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.
Alexandra, a sculptor, summons thunderstorms
Jane, a cellist, floats on the air; and Sukie, the local gossip columnist, turns milk into cream.
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 divorc es with sudden access to all that is female, fecund, and mysterious. . . .
John Updike is the great genial sorcerer of American letters and] The Witches of Eastwick is one of his] most ambitious works.
It\'s the marvelous story of three ambitious Witches living in a small New England town in the late 1960s, who find themselves quite under the spell of the new man in town, Darryl Van Horne, whose hot tub is the scene of some rather bewitching delights
