The Widows of Eastwick » (Reprint)

Best known for a series of novels featuring Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, John Updike was one of the 20th century's most distinguished American authors. Over the course of his long, prolific career, he garnered numerous literary awards, including two coveted Pulitzer Prizes!

After traveling the world to exotic lands, Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie--now widowed but still witches--return to the Rhode Island seaside town of Eastwick, "the scene of their primes," site of their enchanted mischief more than three decades ago. Diabolical Darryl Van Horne is gone, and what was once a center of license and liberation is now a "haven of wholesomeness" populated by hockey moms and househusbands acting out against the old ways of their own absent, experimenting parents. With spirits still willing but flesh weaker, the three women must confront a powerful new counterspell of conformity. In this wicked and wonderful novel, John Updike is at his very best--a legendary master of literary magic up to his old delightful tricks.


From the Paperback edition.

The Barnes & Noble Review

It is always risky for a writer or filmmaker to produce a sequel to a favorite work: the second installment so seldom measures up to the first, and all too often taints its predecessor with its comparative mediocrity. But John Updike is not one to let the odds bother him -- and why should he? He is blessed with seemingly infinite inventive resources and can afford to be daring and profligate with his ideas; sometimes his wild imaginative leaps succeed and sometimes they don't, but failure has never made him any more cautious the next time around.