The widows of Eastwick

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Updike John
Published: Ballantine Books,
Publisher Address: New York
Publication Dates: 2009.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Edition: Ballantine Books trade pbk. ed.
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Carrier Form: 308 p.: ; 21 cm.
ISBN: 9780345517517
Index Number: I712
CLC: I712.45
Call Number: I712.45/U66-19
Contents: After traveling the world to exotic lands, Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie -- now widowed but still witches -- return to the Rhode Island seaside town of Eastwick, "the scene of their primes," site of their enchanted mischief more than three decades ago. Diabolical Darryl Van Horne is gone, and what was once a center of license and liberation is now a "haven of wholesomeness" populated by hockey moms and househusbands acting out against the old ways of their own absent, experimenting parents. With spirits still willing but flesh weaker, the three women must confront a powerful new counterspell of