The witches of Eastwick
By: John Updike.
Edition: 1st Ballantine Books trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Fawcett Columbine
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
Subjects: Witches -- Fiction.; Women -- Rhode Island -- Fiction.; Devil -- Fiction.; Rhode Island -- Fiction.
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.