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The Widows of Eastwick (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780307269607)
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xA master of American letters and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series returns with a sequel to The Witches of Eastwick about the three much-loved divorc馥s--three decades later.
More than three decades have passed since the events described in John Updike's The Witches of Eastwick. The three divorc馥s--Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie--have left town, remarried, and become widows. They cope with their grief and solitude as widows do: they travel the world, to such foreign lands as Canada, Egypt, and China, and renew old acquaintance. Why not, Sukie and Jane ask Alexandra, go back to Eastwick for the summer? The old Rhode Island seaside town, where they indulged in wicked mischief under the influence of the diabolical Darryl Van Horne, is still magical for them. Now Darryl is gone, and their lovers of the time have aged or died, but enchantment remains in the familiar streets and scenery of the village, where they enjoyed their lusty primes as free and empowered women. And, among the local citizenry, there are still those who remember them, and wish them ill. How they cope with the lingering traces of their evil deeds, the shocks of a mysterious counterspell, and the advancing inroads of old age, form the burden on Updike's delightful, ominous sequel.
Author: John Updike
ISBN-10: 0307269604
ISBN-13: 9780307269607
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 10/21/2008
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 8.42h x 5.98w x 1.23d
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 06/01/2008 pg. 74
Publishers Weekly 07/28/2008 pg. 48
Booklist 08/01/2008 pg. 8
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2008 pg. 842
Library Journal 09/01/2008 pg. 123
Time 09/08/2008 pg. 63
Entertainment Weekly 10/24/2008 pg. 75
Time 11/03/2008 pg. 75
New York Times Book Review 11/02/2008 pg. 22
New York Times Book Review 10/26/2008 pg. 1
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/07/2008 pg. 10
Commonweal 12/19/2008 pg. 20
New York Review of Books 01/15/2009 pg. 4
London Review of Books 01/01/2009 pg. 9
Booklist Editors Choice/Adult 01/01/2009 pg. 11
Publishers Weekly Best Books 03/23/2009 pg. 20
More than three decades have passed since the events described in John Updike's The Witches of Eastwick. The three divorc馥s--Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie--have left town, remarried, and become widows. They cope with their grief and solitude as widows do: they travel the world, to such foreign lands as Canada, Egypt, and China, and renew old acquaintance. Why not, Sukie and Jane ask Alexandra, go back to Eastwick for the summer? The old Rhode Island seaside town, where they indulged in wicked mischief under the influence of the diabolical Darryl Van Horne, is still magical for them. Now Darryl is gone, and their lovers of the time have aged or died, but enchantment remains in the familiar streets and scenery of the village, where they enjoyed their lusty primes as free and empowered women. And, among the local citizenry, there are still those who remember them, and wish them ill. How they cope with the lingering traces of their evil deeds, the shocks of a mysterious counterspell, and the advancing inroads of old age, form the burden on Updike's delightful, ominous sequel.
Author: John Updike
ISBN-10: 0307269604
ISBN-13: 9780307269607
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 10/21/2008
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 8.42h x 5.98w x 1.23d
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 06/01/2008 pg. 74
Publishers Weekly 07/28/2008 pg. 48
Booklist 08/01/2008 pg. 8
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2008 pg. 842
Library Journal 09/01/2008 pg. 123
Time 09/08/2008 pg. 63
Entertainment Weekly 10/24/2008 pg. 75
Time 11/03/2008 pg. 75
New York Times Book Review 11/02/2008 pg. 22
New York Times Book Review 10/26/2008 pg. 1
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/07/2008 pg. 10
Commonweal 12/19/2008 pg. 20
New York Review of Books 01/15/2009 pg. 4
London Review of Books 01/01/2009 pg. 9
Booklist Editors Choice/Adult 01/01/2009 pg. 11
Publishers Weekly Best Books 03/23/2009 pg. 20
By John Updike
xJOHN UPDIKE was the author of more than sixty books, eight of them collections of poetry. His novels, including The Centaur, Rabbit Is Rich, and Rabbit at Rest, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in 2009.
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