![]() ![]() ![]() "Witty, ironic, engrossing, punctuated by transports of spectacular prose." In book after book, Updike's fine, funny impressionistic art strips the full casings of everydayness from objects we have known all our lives and makes them shine with fresh new connections." John Updike is] a wizard of language and observation." ![]() Updike] has brought this] culture wittily and radiantly to life." "New England's past and present are brilliantly interwoven in this narrative. Praise for New York Times Bestseller "The Witches of Eastwick": To tell you any more, dear reader, would be to spoil the joy of reading this hexy, sexy novel by the incomparable John Updike. Divorced but hardly celibate, the wonderful witches one day found themselves quite under the spell of the new man in town, Darryl Van Horne, whose strobe-lit hot tub room became the scene of satanic pleasures. The local gossip columnist, Sukie Rougemont, could turn milk into cream. Alexandra Spoffard, a sculptress, could create thunderstorms. In a small New England town in that hectic era when the sixties turned into the seventies, there lived three witches. BEFORE THEY WERE THE WIDOWS OF EASTWICK, OUR HEROINES WERE A TRIO OF DELIGHTFULLY WICKED WITCHES. ![]()
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