Dry and ‘entropically cool’, Alexandra is the unofficial leader of the coven. Thirty-eight year old Alexandra slowly reduced her husband to dust. Her husband now exists only as a placemat. Sukie Rougemont, the youngest of the three, writes a column for the local weekly. A cellist, Jane subsists on giving piano lessons to school children. Jane Smart’s husband now hangs, dried and shrivelled, amongst her herbs and she sometimes sprinkles bits of him onto her cooking for piquancy. Dispatched of their husbands while still in their prime the air and maternal beauty of Eastwick has empowered them. In the small town of Eastwick, Rhode Island, three women have come to possess magical abilities. The prose is exquisite, the evocations magnificent and the themes complex and defy analysis. The Witches of Eastwick was my first Updike and a wonderful introduction at that.
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