[DOC] [TLE] J! Archive - Show #3240, aired 1998-10-09 [PAR] The first book printed in the colonies was Stephen Day's "Whole Book Of" these 
.... This John Updike novel of 1984 had women set for a spell in New England... [DOC] [TLE] BOOKS OF THE TIMES - NYTimes.com - The New York Times [PAR] THE joke in John Updike's dazzling new novel - or is it a joke? ... hands has 
bought the rotting mansion by the beach and is setting up shop as an alchemist. 
... Published: May 8, 1984 ... power had been assigned to the primary pole, 
oneself as a woman. ... New England culture, they offer Mr. Updike a metaphor 
with which... [DOC] [TLE] WONDERING WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE A WOMAN - The New York ... [PAR] ''THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK'' is John Updike's first novel since the ... 
Published: May 13, 1984 ... They are spiritual descendants of the 17th-century 
New England strain and go ... than one because the novel is cunningly set at a 
precise moment in ... Like Van Horne, Mr. Updike has always wondered what it 
would be like... [DOC] [TLE] John Updike - Wikipedia [PAR] John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932  January 27, 2009) was an American 
novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic. Updike's most famous 
work is his "Rabbit" series (the novels Rabbit, Run; .... Updike's memoir indicates 
that he stayed in his "corner of New England to give its domestic news" with a 
focus on... [DOC] [TLE] Updike and the Women - New York Magazine [PAR] Oct 19, 2008 ... Updike has spent much of his long career perfecting a certain breed of anti-hero: 
... eighties and set in the late sixtiesabout the dangers of free women. ... So I 
tried to write this book about women who, in achieving freedom of a sort, ... and 
Sukie, a coven of divorced mothers in a small New England town. [DOC] [TLE] Warlock by Diane Johnson | The New York Review of Books [PAR] June 14, 1984 Issue ... One senses in the tone of John Updike's new novel about 
modern witches ... a small New England town, which seems, as Updike's towns 
usually do, more ... Occasionally they collaborate on a spell against some 
collective enemy. Magic is a metaphor for social forces, as perhaps it always has 
been. [DOC] [TLE] ANALYSIS The Witches of Eastwick (1984) John Updike (1932-2008 ... [PAR] The Witches of Eastwick also has a comprehensive vision not ... 'The fag end of 
creation' and 'the sewer of New England,' Cotton Mather called the region. ... The 
novel opens on a comical note with three feminist New Women focused on ... 
spells. The novel is set during the 1960s-70s when many radical Feminists were
... [DOC] [TLE] Bewitched again by John Updike - latimes [PAR] Sep 20, 2009 ... His 1984 novel, 'The Witches of Eastwick,' has been praised, panned and hotly 
debated. ... set in the first decade of the 21st century, about women's friendship ... 
has a few characters falling in and out of love in a New England... [DOC] [TLE] John Updike - Wikiquote [PAR] John Updike ... On completing a long novel, New York Times (7 April 1968) ... I 
moved to New England partly because it has a real literary past. ... On Muriel 
Spark's The Only Problem (1984), New Yorker (23 July 1984) .... Zeus had loved 
his old friend, and lifted him up, and set him among the stars as the constellation
... [DOC] [TLE] Reading New England: The Witches of Eastwick | The Emerald City ... [PAR] Oct 18, 2016 ... John Updike, The Witches of Eastwick (1984) ... According to the author himself, 
this is a book about female power; some even consider it a feminist book. ... 
Naturally, female power has a dark side, and maybe that's all that Updike set ...

Question: This John Updike novel of 1984 had women set for a spell in New England
Answer: "The Witches Of Eastwick"