by JohnUpdike (Author)
"A great deal of fun to read...Fresh, consantly entertaining....John Updike remains a wizard of language and observation."THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRERIn a small New England town in the late 1960s, there lived three witches. Alexandra Spofford, a sculptress, Jane Smart, a cellist, and Sukie Rougemont, the local gossip columnist. Their supernatural gifts were intriguing, to say the least. Divorced but hardly celibate, content but always ripe for adventure, one day all three witches found themselves under the spell of a new man in town, Darryl Van Horne. His hot tub was the scene of some bewitching delights, but that doesn't being to conjure the half of it....
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 316
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 24 Sep 1987
ISBN 10: 0140102183
ISBN 13: 9780140102185
A wicked entertainment with lots (and lots) of sex...In book after book, Updike's fine, funny impressionistic art strips the full casings of everydayness from objects we have known all our lives and makes them shine with fresh new connections.
-- The New Republic
A dazzling book...A very funny and very unsettling story of what witchcraft might look like if it were around today...Updike is devilishly clever.
-- Los Angeles Times
Selected By Time Magazine As One Of The Five Best Works Of Fiction Of The Year
A wicked entertainment with lots (and lots) of sex...In book after book, Updike's fine, funny impressionistic art strips the full casings of everydayness from objects we have known all our lives and makes them shine with fresh new connections.
-- The New Republic
A dazzling book...A very funny and very unsettling story of what witchcraft might look like if it were around today...Updike is devilishly clever.
-- Los Angeles Times
Selected By Time Magazine As One Of The Five Best Works Of Fiction Of The Year