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THE WIDOWS OF EASTWICK.

THE WIDOWS OF EASTWICK.

THE WIDOWS OF EASTWICK.
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THE WIDOWS OF EASTWICK.

by UPDIKE**, JOHN:

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9780241144275
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn, and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj,with brown+black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - virtually near MINT! Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - appears unread.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean, sharp- cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked fluorescent red ink letters to spine/ backstrip,and immaculate plain black endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3-308pp [paginated] includes 3 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,prose extract from Hamlet,contents list/table,title separator page, a note on type used and 2pp blanks at rear.Author's sequel to 'The Witches of Eastwick'.
More than three decades have passed since the events described in John Updike's '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 such exotic lands as Canada,Egypt and China,and renew old acquaintances.Why not,Sukie and Jane ask Alexandra, go back to Eastwick for the summer?
The old Rhode Island seaside town,where they indulged in wicked mischief under the influence of the diabolical Darryl Van Horne,is still magical for them.Darryl is gone and their lovers of the time have aged or died,but enchantment remains in the familiar streets and scenery of the village,where they enjoyed their lusty primes as free and empowered women.And, among the local citizenry, there are still those who remember them,and wish them ill.
How they cope with the lingering traces of their evil deeds, the shocks of a mysterious counterspell and the advancing inroads of old age are at the heart of Updike's delightful,ominous sequel.
See book ID's rja1212 and rja30008 for examples of the earlier work of 'Rabbit is Rich' by the same author.
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John Updike was born in 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania. 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 and since 1957 has lived in Massachusetts. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the American Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Award, and the Howells Medal.

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R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
THE WIDOWS OF EASTWICK.
Author
UPDIKE**, JOHN:
Book Condition
Used - FINE+.
Jacket Condition
FINE+.
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Edition
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0241144272
ISBN 13
9780241144275
Publisher
LONDON.HAMISH HAMILTON,2008.
This edition first published
2008
Keywords
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