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The Witches of Eastwick
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The Witches of Eastwick Hardcover - 1984

by John Updike

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  • Hardcover
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Knopf, New York, 1984. First edition hardcover in good condition with dust jacket. Dust jacket is in good condition with glossy, full color graphics. The edges of the dust jacket do show wear and the spine does show fading, as well as a small scratch on the front left. The dust jacket is unclipped. The book is purple fabric with the authors name embossed in silver on the cover and the author, title, and publisher embossed in gold and silver on the spine. The pages are clean with no marks, tears, or folds. The top of the text block is blue gray. The book in the photos is the book you are purchasing.
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Details

  • Title The Witches of Eastwick
  • Author John Updike
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 306
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, New York
  • Date 1984
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 1044
  • ISBN 9780394537603 / 0394537602
  • Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.8 x 1.2 in (21.34 x 14.73 x 3.05 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Fantastic fiction, Witches - Fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 83049048
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Summary

The air of Eastwick breeds witches - women whose powerful longings can stir up thunderstorms and fracture domestic peace. Jane, Alexandra and Sukie, divorced and dangerous, have formed a coven. Into the void of Eastwick breezes Darryl Van Horne, a charismatic magus of a man who entrances the trio, luring them to his mansions...

From the publisher

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.

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Media reviews

“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


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About the author

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.

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