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The Witches of Eastwick
by Updike, John (1932-2009)
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- first
- Condition
- Fine-Collectible
- Seller
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Argillite, Kentucky, United States
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About This Item
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1984. 1st Edition Thus. Leatherbound. Fine-Collectible. Michael Deas. 6.25"x8.5" 307 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Dk green leather w/matching silk ribbon. Gilt design on front and spine. Gilt letters on ribbed spine. Gilt edges. Marbled paste downs. Illustrated in B&W charcoals. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unmarked. GIFT QUALITY. Secure ship w/track #. "John Updike is the great genial sorcerer of American letters [and] The Witches of Eastwick [is one of his] most ambitious works. . . . [A] comedy of the blackest sort."—The New York Times Book Review Toward the end of the Vietnam era, in a snug little Rhode Island seacoast town, wonderful powers have descended upon Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie, bewitching divorcées with sudden access to all that is female, fecund, and mysterious. Alexandra, a sculptor, summons thunderstorms; Jane, a cellist, floats on the air; and Sukie, the local gossip columnist, turns milk into cream. Their happy little coven takes on new, malignant life when a dark and moneyed stranger, Darryl Van Horne, refurbishes the long-derelict Lenox mansion and invites them in to play. Thenceforth scandal flits throu...
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Synopsis
The Witches of Eastwick is a 1984 novel by John Updike.
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- Bookseller
- Blacks Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14586
- Title
- The Witches of Eastwick
- Author
- Updike, John (1932-2009)
- Illustrator
- Michael Deas
- Format/Binding
- Leatherbound
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine-Collectible
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition Thus
- Publisher
- The Franklin Library
- Place of Publication
- Franklin Center, PA
- Date Published
- 1984
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