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The Widows of Eastwick
  • Published: 29 June 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141919829
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320

The Widows of Eastwick




The delightfully wicked sequel to John Updike's much-loved The Witches of Eastwick

More than three decades have passed since the events described in The Witches of Eastwick and the three divorcees - Alexandra, Jane and Sukie - have left town, remarried, and become widows. They cope with their grief and solitude as widows do: they travel the world to exotic lands such as Canada, China and Egypt and renew old acquaintances. And then, one summer, they decide to go back to Eastwick.

The old Rhode Island seaside town where they once indulged in sensuous mischief still holds enchantment for the three, but it also holds memories, and there are those who remember them and wish them ill . . .

  • Published: 29 June 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141919829
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320

About the author

John Updike

JOHN UPDIKE is the author of more than sixty books, eight of them collections of poetry. His novels won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle, and the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in January 2009.

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Praise for The Widows of Eastwick

Praise for The Witches of Eastwick: 'Witty, ironic, engrossing and punctuated by transports of spectacular prose' Time 'A strange and marvellous organism' The New York Times Book Review