The widows of Eastwick
By: by John Updike.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Knopf; Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780307269607
Subjects: Widows -- Fiction; Witches -- Fiction; Women -- Rhode Island -- Fiction; Rhode Island -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
First sentence: Those of us acquainted with their sordid and scandalous story were not surprised to hear, by way of rumors from the various localities where the sorceresses had settled after fleeing our pleasant town of Eastwick, Rode Island, that the husbands whom the three Godforsaken women had by their dark arts concocted for themselves did not prove durable.
Description: The three divorcées from John Updike’s The Witches of Eastwick—Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie—have left town, remarried, and become widows. Meeting again, they travel to Canada, Egypt, and China. and, finally, back to Eastwick. The diabolical Darryl Van Horne is gone, and their lovers of the time have aged or died, but among the local citizenry, there are still those who remember them, and wish them ill.  (from publisher's copy)
Notes: A sequel to: The witches of Eastwick.
Table of contents: title: The Coven Reconstituted, 3; title: Maleficia Revisited, 101; title: Guilt Assuaged, 207