New York Times Bestseller The Witches of Eastwick - John Updike Kartoniert (TB)

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 t akes 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