num_pages: 316
description: "A great deal of fun to read...Fresh, consantly entertaining....John Updike remains a wizard of language and observation."THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRERIn a small New England town in the late 1960s, there lived three witches. Alexandra Spofford, a sculptress, Jane Smart, a cellist, and Sukie Rougemont, the local gossip columnist. Their supernatural gifts were intriguing, to say the least. Divorced but hardly celibate, content but always ripe for adventure, one day all three witches found themselves under the spell of a new man in town, Darryl Van Horne. His hot tub was the scene of some bewitching delights, but that doesn't being to conjure the half of it....
language: English
title: The Witches of Eastwick
titlecomplete: The Witches of Eastwick
characters: Jane Smart, Alexandra Spofford, Sukie Rougemont, Darryl Van Horne
genres: Literature, American, Classics, Novels, Magic, Fiction, Horror, Fantasy, Paranormal, Witches
ratings_count: 16915
places: Rhode Island, Eastwick, Rhode Island, The United States of America
series: Eastwick
awards: awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Penguin