From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art.
John Updike a wizard of language and observation.-The Philadelphia Inquirer Vintage Updike, which is to say among the best fiction we have.-Newsday About the Author John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. comedy of the blackest sort.-The New York Times Book Review A great deal of fun to read. John Updike a wizard of language and observation.-The Philadelphia Inquirer Vintage Updike, which is to say among the best fiction we have.-Newsday Review Quotes John Updike is the great genial sorcerer of American letters The Witches of Eastwick most ambitious works. Thenceforth scandal flits through the darkening, crooked streets of Eastwick-and through the even darker fantasies of the towns collective psyche. 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. Alexandra, a sculptor, summons thunderstorms Jane, a cellist, floats on the air and Sukie, the local gossip columnist, turns milk into cream. comedy of the blackest sort.-The New York Times Book Review 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 divorces with sudden access to all that is female, fecund, and mysterious. Book Synopsis John Updike is the great genial sorcerer of American letters The Witches of Eastwick most ambitious works. About the Book Its the marvelous story of three ambitious witches living in a small New England town in the late 1960s, who find themselves quite under the spell of the new man in town, Darryl Van Horne, whose hot tub is the scene of some rather bewitching delights.
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