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The Witches of Eastwick: Penguin Modern Classics

Autor John Updike
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 feb 2007
The air of Eastwick breeds witches - women whose powerful longings can stir up thunderstorms and fracture domestic peace. Jane, Alexandra and Sukie, divorced and dangerous, have formed a coven. Into the void of Eastwick breezes Darryl Van Horne, a charismatic magus of a man who entrances the trio, luring them to his mansions.
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ISBN-13: 9780141188973
ISBN-10: 0141188979
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Seria Penguin Modern Classics

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He is the author of over fifty books, includingThe Poorhouse Fair;the Rabbit series (Rabbit, Run;Rabbit Redux;Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest);Marry Me;The Witches of Eastwick,which was made into a major feature film;Memories of the Ford Administration; Brazil; In the Beauty of the Lilies;Toward the End of Time;Gertrude and Claudius;andSeek My Face.He has written a number of collections of short stories, includingThe Afterlife and Other StoriesandLicks of Love, which includes a final Rabbit story,Rabbit Remembered.His essays and criticism first appeared in publications such as theNew Yorkerand theNew York Review of Books, and are now collected into numerous volumes.Collected Poems 1953-1993brings together almost all of his verse, and a new edition of hisSelected Poemsis forthcoming from Hamish Hamilton.

His novels, stories, and non-fiction collections have won have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the American Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Award and the Howells Medal.

Updike graduated from Harvard College in 1954, and spent a year at Oxford's Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of staff at the New Yorker, and he lived in Massachusetts from 1957 until his death in January 2009.

Recenzii

“John Updike is the great genial sorcerer of American letters [and] The Witches of Eastwick [one of his] most ambitious works. . . . [A] comedy of the blackest sort.”—The New York Times Book Review
 
“A great deal of fun to read . . . fresh, constantly entertaining . . . John Updike [is] a wizard of language and observation.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer
 
“Vintage Updike, which is to say among the best fiction we have.”—Newsday