Witches Of Eastwick The

“John Updike is the great genial sorcerer of American letters and The Witches of Eastwick is one of his most ambitious works. . . . A comedy of the blackest sort.”—The New York Times Book Review 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 longderelict 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. “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