{"product_id":"the-witches-of-eastwick","title":"The Witches of Eastwick","description":"\u003cp\u003e“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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToward 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 through the darkening, crooked streets of Eastwick—and through the even darker fantasies of the town’s collective psyche.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A great deal of fun to read . . . fresh, constantly entertaining . . . John Updike [is] a wizard of language and observation.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Vintage Updike, which is to say among the best fiction we have.”—Newsday\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Trade Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47084960415922,"sku":"Fantasy","price":7.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/7274\/0786\/files\/9780449912102.jpg?v=1771614963","url":"https:\/\/thebookstoreinpinecity.com\/products\/the-witches-of-eastwick","provider":"The Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}