02010cam a2200349 i 4500 623517690 TxAuBib 20160927120000.0 831115s1984||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 83049048 9780394537603 0394537602 (OCoLC)10183130 DLC eng rda DLC DLC TxAuBib rda Updike, John. The witches of Eastwick / John Updike. First trade edition. New York : Knopf, 1984. 307 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 1. I believe in general there is, "Joseph Addison wrote in 1711, " and has been such a thing as Witch-craft; but at the same time can give no Credit to any particular Instance of it." The instance that John Updike presents, in his first novel since the Pulitzer Prize - winning Rabbit Is Rich, occurs in the Rhode Island hamlet of Eastwick. Wonderful powers have descended upon Jane, Suke, and Alexandra now that their husbands are out of the way; Alexandra sculpts and creates thunderstorms, Jane plays the cello and can fly through the air, Sukie writes a gossip column and turns milk into cream. Their snug little coven takes on new and more malignant life when a dark, burly, and apparently weathly stranger, Darryl Van Horne, arrives in town; the refurbishes the old Lenox mansion, and sets up an alchemist's lab. Thenceforth rumor and misfortune flit through the marshes and the pleasant crooked streets. The action consumes a year during the national Walpurgisnacht of the Vietnam era. (taken from the book.) 20160927. Witchcraft Rhode Island Fiction. Women Rhode Island Fiction. Devil Fiction. Fantasy fiction. lcgft Fiction. lcgft TXKPL