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 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)