Like other prolific novelists (Philip Roth comes to mind), John Updike likes to revisit his characters, checking to see what they’ve been up to over the years since he invented them. In The Witches of Eastwick (1984) we first met the three gifted and dangerous women who worked their magic in a small, “semi-depressed and semi-fashionable” Rhode Island town. Alexandra Spoff (...)
December 19, 2008
Books
Toil & Trouble
The Widows of EastwickJohn UpdikeAlfred A. Knopf, $24.95, 320 pp.
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