The widows of Eastwick
By: John Updike.
Edition: Ballantine Books trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780345506979
Subjects: Widows -- Fiction; Witches -- Fiction; Women -- Rhode Island -- Fiction; Rhode Island -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
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 as his very best - a legendary mster of literary magic up to his old delightful tricks.