” 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 Towards completion of the Vietnam age, in a snug little Rhode Island seacoast town, wonderful powers have actually come down upon Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie, bewitching divorcées with sudden access to all that is female, fecund, and strange. Alexandra, a sculptor, summons thunderstorms; Jane, a cellist, drifts on the air; and Sukie, the regional chatter writer, turns milk into cream. Their delighted little coven handles brand-new, deadly life when a dark and well-off stranger, Darryl Van Horne, reconditions the long-derelict Lenox estate and invites them in to play. Thenceforth scandal sweeps through the darkening, misaligned streets of Eastwick– and through the even darker fantasies of the town’s collective psyche. “A great deal of fun to check out … fresh, continuously amusing … John Updike [is] a wizard of language and observation.”– The Philadelphia Inquirer “Vintage Updike, which is to say amongst the best fiction we have.”– Newsday
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