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The Widows of Eastwick (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780345506979)
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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: 0345506979
ISBN-13: 9780345506979
Publisher: Random House Trade
Language: English
Published: 06/02/2009
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.80d
Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 07/19/2009 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: 0345506979
ISBN-13: 9780345506979
Publisher: Random House Trade
Language: English
Published: 06/02/2009
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.80d
Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 07/19/2009 pg. 20
By John Updike
xJohn Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009.
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