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Witches of Eastwick by John Updike (1985, Mass Market)

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The novel is intended for young adults and adults, and is written in English. 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.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherRandom House Publishing Group

ISBN-100449206475

ISBN-139780449206478

eBay Product ID (ePID)188833

Product Key Features

Publication Year1985

Book TitleWitches of Eastwick

TopicFantasy / Contemporary, Literary

Number of Pages352 Pages

LanguageEnglish

GenreNon-Classifiable, Fiction

AuthorJohn Updike

FormatMass Market

Dimensions

Item Weight5.9 Oz

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition19

Reviews"A Great Deal Of Fun To Read...Fresh, constantly entertaining...The text also abounds with delightful aphorisms for these times...John Updike remains a wizard of language and observation." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer "A wicked entertainment with lots (and lots) of sex...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." -- The New Republic "A dazzling book...A very funny and very unsettling story of what witchcraft might look like if it were around today...Updike is devilishly clever." -- Los Angeles Times Selected By Time Magazine As One Of The Five Best Works Of Fiction Of The Year From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Dewey Decimal813/.54

Synopsis"A great deal of fun to read...Fresh, consantly entertaining....John Updike remains a wizard of language and observation." THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER In a small New England town in the late 1960s, there lived three witches. Alexandra Spofford, a sculptress, Jane Smart, a cellist, and Sukie Rougemont,the local gossip columnist. Their supernatural gifts were intriguing, to say the least. Divorced but hardly celibate, content but always ripe for adventure, one day all three witches found themselves under the spell of a new man in town, Darryl Van Horne. His hot tub was the scene of some bewitching delights, but that doesn't being to conjure the half of it....