The Witches of Eastwick: A Novel - Softcover

Updike, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0449912108 ISBN 13: 9780449912102

Verlag: Random House Publishing Group, 1996

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Book by Updike John

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"John Updike is the great genial sorcerer of American letters [and] The Witches of Eastwick [one of his] most ambitious works. . . . [A] comedy of the blackest sort."--The New York Times Book Review

"A great deal of fun to read . . . fresh, constantly entertaining . . . John Updike [is] a wizard of language and observation."--The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Vintage Updike, which is to say among the best fiction we have."--Newsday

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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.

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• Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0449912108
• ISBN 13: 9780449912102
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 354