description: 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 divorcées with sudden access to all that is female, fecund, and mysterious. Alexandra, a sculptor, summons thunderstorms; Jane, a cellist, floats on the air; and Sukie, the local gossip columnist, turns milk into cream. 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. Thenceforth scandal flits through the darkening, crooked streets of Eastwick and through the even darker fantasies of the town’s collective psyche.
language: English
title: The Witches of Eastwick
titlecomplete: The Witches of Eastwick
characters: Jane Smart, Alexandra Spofford, Sukie Rougemont, Darryl Van Horne
genres: Fiction, Magic, American, Witches, Horror, Paranormal, Literature, Classics, Novels, Fantasy
ratings_count: 16922
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 Books Ltd