The Witches of Eastwick

Zusatztext “John Updike is the great genial sorcerer of American letters [and] The Witches of Eastwick [one of his] most ambitious works. . . . [A] comedy of the blackest sort.” — The New York Times Book Review   “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 Informationen zum Autor John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker . His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009. Klappentext "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 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 I   THE COVEN “He was a meikle blak roch man, werie cold.” —ISOBEL GOWDIE, in 1662 “Now efter that the deuell had endit his admonitions, he cam down out of the pulpit, and caused all the company to com and kiss his ers, quhilk they said was cauld lyk yce; his body was hard lyk yrn, as they thocht that handled him.” —AGNES SAMPSON, in 1590     “AND OH YES,” Jane Smart said in her hasty yet purposeful way; each s seemed the black tip of a just-extinguished match held in playful hurt, as children do, against the skin. “Sukie said a man has bought the Lenox mansion.”   “A man?” Alexandra Spofford asked, feeling off-center, her peaceful aura that morning splayed by the assertive word.   “From New York,” Jane hurried on, the last syllable almost barked, its r dropped in Massachusetts style. “No wife and family, evidently.”   “Oh. One of those.” Hearing Jane’s northern voice bring her this rumor of a homosexual come up from Manhattan to invade them, Alexandra felt intersected where she was, in this mysterious crabbed state of Rhode Island. She had been born in the West, where white and violet mountains lift in pursuit of the delicate tall clouds, and tumbleweed rolls in pursuit of the horizon.   “Sukie wasn’t so sure,” Jane said swiftly, her s’s chastening. “He appeared quite burly. She was struck by how hairy the backs of his hands were. He told the people at Perley Realty he needed all that space because he was an inventor with a lab. And he owns a number of pianos.” Alexandra giggled; the noise, little changed since her Colorado girlhood, seemed produced not out of her throat but by a birdlike familiar perched on her shou...

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John Updike is the great genial sorcerer of American letters [and] The Witches of Eastwick [one of his] most ambitious works. . . . [A] comedy of the blackest sort. The New York Times Book Review
 
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

Product details

• Authors: John Updike
• Publisher: Random House USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.08.1996
• EAN: 9780449912102
• ISBN: 978-0-449-91210-2
• No. of pages: 344
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 211 mm x 18 mm
• Series: New York Times Bestseller; New York Times Bestseller
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature