The Widows of Eastwick: A Novel - Softcover

Updike, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345506979 ISBN 13: 9780345506979

Verlag: Random House Publishing Group, 2009

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Book by Updike John

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Críticas:

"Ingenious . . . This isn't writing. It is magic."--The New York Times Book Review

"Dazzling Updikean prose . . . Here's a bet his work will keep fresh for generations, inciting laughter, wonder and sensuous shivers."--Los Angeles Times

"An amusing romp . . . made unexpectedly moving by the author's profundity and his renowned dexterity with language . . . [Updike is a] master of making us want to guffaw and weep in the same sentence."--The Houston Chronicle

Reseña del editor:

More than three decades after the events described in The Witches of Eastwick, Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie—widowed, aging, and with their occult powers fading—return for the summer to the Rhode Island town where they once made piquant scandal and sometimes deadly mischief. But what was then a center of license and liberation is now a “haven of wholesomeness” populated by hockey moms and househusbands primly rebelling against their absent, reckless, self-involved parents. With spirits still free but energy waning, the three women reconstitute their coven to confront not only this youthful counterspell of propriety but also the enmity of those longtime townsfolk who, through their youthful witchery, they irreparably harmed. In this wise and wicked satire on the way we make peace with our pasts, John Updike proves himself a wizard on every page.

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• Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0345506979
• ISBN 13: 9780345506979
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320