The Witches of Eastwick - Couverture rigide

Updike, John

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0394537602 ISBN 13 : 9780394537603

Editeur : Alfred A. Knopf, 1984

Synopsis

The Witches of Eastwick

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Toward 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.

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Biographie de l'auteur :

John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Alfred A. Knopf
• Date d'édition: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0394537602
• ISBN 13: 9780394537603
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 307