The witches of Eastwick

• Main Author: Updike, John (Author)
• Format: Unknown
• Language: English
• Published: New York Knopf Distributed by Random House 1984
• Edition: 1st trade ed
• Subjects: Witches; Rhode Island; Paranormal fiction; American fiction
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• Physical Description: 307 pages 22 cm
• ISBN: 0394537602

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.