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The Witches of Eastwick Audio Book
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The Witches of Eastwick
Author:
John Updike
Reader: Kate Reading
Eastwick's air breeds witches – women whose longings can stir up thunderstorms and fracture domestic peace. These three divorced and dangerous women have formed a coven. Into the void of Eastwick breezes charismatic Darryl Van Horne,who bewitches the trio. "Reading's intelligent narration revels in the women's wicked antics yet manages to take the sting from their more diabolical practices. Listening to Updike's careful craftsmanship is pure pleasure."—AudioFile
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Available Audio Book Editions:
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UNABRIDGED |
Audio CDs ( 10 ) |
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Publish Date: 10/21/2008
ISBN: 9780739370810
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Synopsis:
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In John Updike's hugely entertaining fantasy of sex and revenge, Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie are divorcées living in Eastwick, Rhode Island, a town that was a haven of witchcraft during the colonial years. After each is betrayed in her turn by Darryl Van Horne, a local womanizing cad, they come together to work out a curse against him. THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK was made into a 1987 film, starring Jack Nicholson as the devil, and Cher, Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer as the three witches.
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Book Reviews:
| "A strange and marvelous organism...Like Shakespeare and Robert Louis Stevenson before him, he finds wickedness and mischief more engrossing than goodness and wisdom." |
| New York Times Book Review - Margaret Atwood (5/13/84) |
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Author Bio:
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John Updike, the son of a schoolteacher father and a mother who wanted to be a writer, was raised in Reading, Pennsylvania--a town not unlike Brewer, where, many years later, he situated his famous character, Rabbit Angstrom. Updike graduated from Harvard, where he nourished "an un-Harvardian desire to be a cartoonist," as he put it in an interview, and where he was turned down "repeatedly" for Archibald MacLeish's writing class. He was also editor of Harvard's famous humor magazine, the Lampoon. After college, Updike worked for a few years on the staff of The New Yorker before he began publishing fiction. He is the author of over 50 books, including not only novels but collections of short stories, poems, and criticism--even children's books. His novels have been almost invariably critical and popular successes, and his tetralogy about Rabbit Angstrom (RABBIT, RUN; RABBIT REDUX; RABBIT IS RICH; RABBIT AT REST) has assured him a prominent place in American literary history. Updike is a disciplined writer who has said that he can't enjoy the rest of the day until he's written at least a thousand words. Considered one of the masters of contemporary fiction, he has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the American Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Updike is the father of four children and has been married twice. He died in 2009 from lung cancer.
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