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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE WITCHES OF EAST...

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 ReviewToward 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. 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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