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The Widows of Eastwick

by John Updike

2.90 · rating details · 796 ratings · 204 reviews

More than three decades have passed since the events described in John Updike’s The Witches of Eastwick. The three divorcées—Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie—have left town, remarried, and become widows. They cope with their grief and solitude as widows do: they travel the world, to such foreign lands as Canada, Egypt, and China, and renew old acquaintance. Why not, Sukie and Ja...more

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Published October 21st 2008 by Knopf (first published January 1st 2008)

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Nov 28, 2008

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I've got 50 pages to go. It's better than most of reviews it received gave it credit for ... but it's not nearly as good as "The Witches of Eastwick" - the original appearance of these 3 ladies. I am always compelled to read the "new Updike" (as I am "the new Roth"), and I've noticed in his last few novels he has developed a penchant to referencing his characters' (who are mostly aging, as he is) body odors. The widows are all three of them obsessed at times with...more

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Dec 30, 2008

Katrina rated it

The Witches of Eastwick was one of my favorite guilty pleasures of the eighties, but this years-removed sequel just doesn't measure up. The Widows, now thirty years older, attempt to reunite beneath the cone of power they had used to upend Eastwick in their youth, but it just never comes together for me. At times the writing is great, especially as the widows tour the world together, but at other times it drags. Maybe witchcraft is best left in the hands of the young.

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Dec 07, 2008

Stephen rated it

The witches of Eastwick thirty years later, now widowed, on the other side of second marriages, far away from sex and witchery, reunite first in world travel and then back in Eastwick itself. Once in Eastwick, they discover that certain echoes from their earlier mischief live on and eventually entice them to return to witchcraft and, in Sukie's case, sex. But somehow this book never quite rang true to me. Much of the travelogue was well-written but seemed here to be filler (gotta get 300 page...more

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Nov 21, 2008

Tony rated it

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Updike, John. THE WIDOWS OF EASTWICK. (2008). ****. Back in 1984, Updike published “The Witches of Eastwick,” the story of three women who lived in a small town in Rhode Island who got together and discovered they had “witchy” powers. That was twenty-six years ago. Now, all three, Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie, have left town, married (some several times), and are now widows. They have each faced widowhood in their own ways. Alexandra, who is now living in New Mexico, decided to travel. Of...more

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Jan 25, 2012

Eric Chappell rated it

This book was like a reunion with old friends. Novel consists of Three Acts (interesting to possibly focus on Updike's 3-Act structure to both books--Coven, Maleficia, Guilt; cf. David Mamet, Three Uses of the Knife). The book begins with Alexandra in New Mexico just after her second husband's death. She takes a tour to the Canadian Rockies, meets a man, William McHugh who turns out to be gay (25).

Jane Smart contacts Alexandra via letter to inform Lexa of her husband's death (31). They...more

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Oct 04, 2011

Betsy VanSweden rated it

The Widows of Eastwick by John Updike, Ballantine Books, 2008

The novel The Witches of Eastwick written by John Updike made me wish I had the chance to ask him “Who pooped on your birthday cake?” If one is looking for a light easy read this is definitely not the way to go. A male chauvinist excited to have a forum on which to slam women has very obviously written the female characters, who remain flat until the very end of the novel. Not only the characters but also the diction use...moreThe Widows of Eastwick by John Updike, Ballantine Books, 2008

The novel The Witches of Eastwick written by John Updike made me wish I had the chance to ask him “Who pooped on your birthday cake?” If one is looking for a light easy read this is definitely not the way to go. A male chauvinist excited to have a forum on which to slam women has very obviously written the female characters, who remain flat until the very end of the novel. Not only the characters but also the diction used in the novel becomes very tiresome. Updike uses an abundant amount of adjectives, which as a reader, I found to be arduous and awkward.

Both the plot and the characters of this novel are unmoving for a strenuously long time. In a sequel one expects to spend some time reading about the connection of the first book to the second. This novel, however, spends the first two thirds of its length going over the exact details of the first novel as the aging characters discuss mundane happenings of daily life when not detailing their youthful mishaps.

A redeeming quality of Updike’s prose is that of the historically accurate descriptions of the trips taken to both Egypt and China. One not familiar with such countries will find themselves intrigued if not mystified by the ancient ceremonies being depicted. Had I not already taken classes that had given me this information I think that I would have enjoyed the sections discussing foreign travel much more. The only thing that takes away from these sections is Updike’s tendency to include logorrhea into every run on sentence split with confusing punctuation.

The most unfortunate part of this novel was the unrealistic depiction of the female characters in the story. The way that Updike has posed the women as relating to one another is sexually jealous of each other’s attention rather than a display of the beautiful bond that only females can share with one another. He writes of them in sexual situations, which wouldn’t ever even come close to happening unless the female was being directed in a pornographic film. This is evident in the scene when Sukie finishes oral sex with Chris and simply lays down to continue pillow talk without even wiping the mess off her face. The way that Updike describes female anatomy is even lewd and disgusting, as if he really hates that vaginas even exist, evident on page 201 as he describes them as “hairy and odorous”, then again one page later he describes, “odors drifted from between the unholy wantons’ legs, their nests of once thick and springy curls turned gauzy and gray, public clocks ticking unseen, decade after decade, in their underpants.”

Updike gives no redeeming quality to the character of Jane, and suffers only a slight kindness given by each Alexandra and Sukie. These character redemptions do not occur until the very tail end of the novel at which point I found it difficult to not throw the book across the room. One must assume that throughout his life Updike had an extremely negative relationship with a/every female he encountered. If this is not the case, then given the basis of the first novel, this sequel may be meant to imply to women that living an irresponsible life in youth will lead to bitter, unfortunate haggardness in the golden years.

I find that I have learned that true depiction of the opposite gender by an author may be very difficult to achieve unless the writer does an extreme amount of research into the other sexes’ psyche. Also I found that I will make sure to not add punctuation or diction that can be confusing or alienating to any readers, as that is the goal of writing, for people to read and enjoy it.
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Jun 08, 2011

Carolina Dean rated it

It’s been 30 years since the comely coven of Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie left Eastwick behind for separate lives with newly conjured husbands, Alexandra to an artist in New Mexico; Jane to a well-to-do financial consultant in New England; and Sukie to a nouveau-riche entrepreneur in Connecticut. Who’s to say if they left Eastwick for a second chance at love and happiness or was it to escape the shame and guilt of having killed one of their own? Perhaps they left to avoid the ire of their numerous...moreIt’s been 30 years since the comely coven of Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie left Eastwick behind for separate lives with newly conjured husbands, Alexandra to an artist in New Mexico; Jane to a well-to-do financial consultant in New England; and Sukie to a nouveau-riche entrepreneur in Connecticut. Who’s to say if they left Eastwick for a second chance at love and happiness or was it to escape the shame and guilt of having killed one of their own? Perhaps they left to avoid the ire of their numerous enemies, who coveted their beauty, power, and sexual freedom?

Suffice it to say, gone are the days of meeting together to raise the cone of power. No more maleficia. No more orgiastic sabbats with their shared lover Daryl Van Horne. No more feasting upon fine delicacies in the grand rooms of Lenox Manor. Alexandra fills her days devoted to her husband and his craft, somehow finding the time to nurture her own. Whereas Jane somewhat enjoys the leisurely pace of the idle rich, and Sukie expresses her creativity by writing romance novels just this side of pornography.

Having settled into the routine of their lives, the women suddenly find themselves widowed with the death of their respective husbands. The witches now face the grim reality of their own death and seek to renew the friendships of the past. After having had little contact in the past thirty years, the women initially reconnect through letters and phone calls. These calls first lead to Alexandra and Jane taking a trip to Egypt together, and the following year, Sukie joins them for a trip to China.

After having to persuade Alexandra a bit, the women decide to return to the “scene of their primes” as one of the witches describes Eastwick. Interestingly, they end up renting Lenox Manor (now divided into several condos and renamed to reflect the fact) for the months of August and September. Though many years have passed, they begrudgingly look forward to their return trip to Eastwick, which they attribute to both a sense of curiosity as well as a sense of guilt for their part in the demise of Jenny Gabriel, the wife of Daryl Van Horne.

The return of the witches to Eastwick shocks its citizens, and Jane in particular gets a peculiar shock in return, or rather a series of shocks. Alexandra un-expectantly meets the wife of one of her past lovers who attributes her daughter’s inability to conceive to the coven’s black magic. Sukie meets with a former lover, eleven years her junior, only to find that fantasy has given away to reality and her former boy-toy is now an old man. Not only has his six-pack grown into a keg, but his hand has become deformed due to an accident which occurred aboard the ship on which he used to work.

About the same time Jane suffers a health scare, she realizes that Christopher Gabriel, the brother of the girl they murdered, is also in town. The women come to believe that Darryl has shared some of his power with the man they describe as his ‘disciple’ and that he is the cause of Jane’s problems. The witches decide to flex their magical muscles once again and raise the cone of power. However, this time they decide to attempt to right the wrongs of the past. Jane seeks a healing, while Alexandra prays to the Goddess to allow her old enemy’s daughter to conceive, and Sukie makes her wish for her former lover to be made whole again.

They barely raised the cone of power before the unthinkable happens. Their enemy claims his first victim from among their number and the two witches left behind must counteract his spell or be taken next.

It would be a mistake to say that I read this book, but rather I devoured it; as once I started reading it, I could not put Widows down until I had digested the whole story. I very much enjoyed the author’s descriptions of the many places the witches visited during their travels as well as their philosophical banter which was quite interesting. I found the women’s attempts to understand and actually utilize today’s technology (cell phones, hybrid cars, etc…) both amusing and realistic.

I especially liked the description of the witches’ ritual to raise the cone of power and was delighted that the author actually attempted to somewhat update their practices. The fact that the witches used terms such as chakras, athame, and Wicca hinted that at least one of them had continued her studies on some level. I would have loved to have gotten the elderly witches observations on how the craft has come to the forefront of society’s consciousness. How the practice of magic and witchcraft isn’t as hidden as it was in their day. What might these witches have thought of Buffy or The Charmed Ones?

There were a few instances where I was slightly offended such as Alexandra’s reaction when it dawned upon her that one of the men in her tour group was gay; or not so much disgusted but disturbed as when Sukie (a sixty-something year old woman, mind you) got a facial after orally pleasuring one of her lovers. However, I chalked up Alexandra’s reaction to her personal prejudice due to her age as well as having been betrayed by Daryl, who had left the women so long ago for the bed of another man.

Finally, I found the author’s attempt to explain magic in scientific terms somewhat boring as well as Chris explanation as to how he attempted to duplicate the witch’s maleficia by manipulating electrons too clinical albeit not impossible. I felt that any attempt to dissect the process of magic detracts from the mystery of the power and removes any sense of the enjoyment of reading.

I found Widows to be a fast, interesting, and delightful read, save for a few inconsistencies and aforementioned detractions. The author did an excellent job of maintaining the characterizations he created with the first novel, with just enough changed to show that the women had matured, or rather had grown. I had hoped for an appearance of Daryl Van Horne, but perhaps his time has passed. At the young age of seventy-something, lets hope that this chapter in the witches lives isn’t their epilogue and that they have just enough life in them for one more story—if only we didn’t have to wait another 28 years. (less)

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Dec 10, 2010

Caitlin rated it

This is really a 3.75, but I like Updike enough to give him the full 4 stars. I read this in about 2 days (while I should have been studying.)

I think _Widows_ illustrates some of what is so compelling--and so dirty--about Updike. To a younger reader, there's a certain horror in learning how little the widows care for their children, how disposable their husbands were, and how attached they are to both husbands and children nonetheless. Is this what aging is like?

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May 03, 2010

Mommalibrarian rated it

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"How quickly, Alexandra thought, they had slipped back into being a trio, a trinity coming together to form a cone of power. It was not that she like the other two women better than her leathery, bohemian, long-haired, jeans-clad female friends in Taos - comparatively, Sukie and Jane had narrow, Northeastern horizons - but in their company she felt more powerful, more deeply appreciated, more positively enjoyed. They had known her at the height of her desirability, in a society that, isola...more

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Feb 20, 2010

Ted rated it

Recommends it for: Updike fans, Eastwick fans

Having read the first book (and seen the movie), I'm disappointed in this sequel. Putting aside my feelings on the characters and their adventures in the first novel, this book on its own has a very weak "plot" and a poor structure.

Once upon a time, Alex, Jane and Sukie were best friends living in a small town in Rhode Island, dabbling both in sorcery and seduction of their neighbours. Thirty years on, they have gone their separate ways, found love and subsequently lost i...moreHaving read the first book (and seen the movie), I'm disappointed in this sequel. Putting aside my feelings on the characters and their adventures in the first novel, this book on its own has a very weak "plot" and a poor structure.

Once upon a time, Alex, Jane and Sukie were best friends living in a small town in Rhode Island, dabbling both in sorcery and seduction of their neighbours. Thirty years on, they have gone their separate ways, found love and subsequently lost it, which leads to their current position as the titular Widows. Unfortunately, the introduction to the entire story (and a rather large chunk of it) is spent following first Alex, then Alex and Jane, and finally the entire trio, as they traipse around various world locales listening to (and forcing the reader to endure) history lessons about foreign cultures. Most of this part of the story read like a lecture; I might have enjoyed it more if I had purchased a book called The Encyclopedia of Eastwick. The real shame in this is that the examination of history and culture dwarfs the relationships of the women; a casual phone call after nearly three decades, presented as a rather distant ten-minute conversation, leads to an almost immediate rekindling of friendship and an agreement to travel the world together.

There is little emotional depth behind the reasons these women want to resume their friendship, and this sense of unease amongst them pervades the entire book. This was a lacking on behalf of the characters in the first novel which seems to have grown even worse here, in that they are so jealous and petty and vicious - even with one another - that you sometimes wonder why they are friends at all. The answer seems to be that they, as witches, are snobs. They would rather their trio, bitter as it is, than the morally upright and therefore common people by whom they are surrounded. Not all friendships can be perfect, but the glue which held these women together in Witches - which, they underline here, involved their shared gripes about children and schoolteachers, local gossips, the banality of Eastwick and the puritanical townspeople - is gone in Widows. I would not want to read about three people who don't like one another very much travelling the world together any more than I would care to actually travel with them.

The book reads, overall, as though Updike wanted to revisit the world of Eastwick but did not quite know how to do it, which is where the structure seems so strange. After much of the story is spent watching the widows flit from place to place, ruminating on their former lives and how every crease, odor, lump, bruise and wrinkle has turned them into shadows of their former selves, there is a sudden (and almost unexpected) introduction of some danger for the women in the form of a character from the first book who returns intent on getting revenge. However, it is hard to care much about any of the womens' fates when they seem to care about one another's so little. Overall, the book reads like a series of small adventures - first, into the travels of the three main characters, and then into their attempts to each repair some wrong they feel they have caused in the lives of those around them. The attempts to tie this all together with the return of the dangerous character seems almost like an afterthought.

With regards to prose, Widows works very well in some places and suffers in many others; there are sentences and passages which are overlong and complicated. The characters have a bad habit of all speaking in the same voice, uttering run-on sentences designed to give the reader backstory but making them all sound like they are reading from the same expository text.

Mostly an examination on how much getting old sucks, there is very little to enjoy in revisiting the world of the witches of Eastwick. Anyone who has read the first book may well be disappointed by this sequel, and anyone picking this up having only seen the film will find almost nothing familiar about their adventures - or any fun.(less)

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Jun 22, 2009

Alice Osborn rated it

The Widows of Eastwick is John Updike's last published book (he died January 27th, 2009 of lung cancer)and just because it was his last book, that in itself is worth the read. I love Updike's short story, "A&P" but haven't had the pleaure of reading any of his novels -- "Widows" was my first foray into Updikeland. I enjoyed his tangents about aging, loss and decreptitude. These are all surely issues that were on his mind as he was sick with lung cancer. The book, however, is ...more

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Jan 18, 2009

melissa rated it

First of all let me say, I never read the first book, although I did see the movie. This book is nothing like the movie, but then again, I have heard the first book is nothing like the movie either. In my mind, I kept seeing the actresses (Cher, Susan Serandon, and Michelle Pfeiffer.) As much as I enjoyed the writing, it took a while to get into, as it sometimes had long sentences, and even longer paragraphs. Once I picked up the flow, it wasn’t too bad. I found it to be well researched, bu...more

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Jan 11, 2009

Rosemary Ceravolo rated it

Updike's acerbic wit is off and running in "The Widows of
Eastwick." I can easily conjure up the film sequel to his
1984, "The Witches of Eastwick," with Kathy Bates as
Alexandra, Meryl Streep as Sukie, and Lily Tomlin as Jane.

That said, "The Widows" are geriatric has-beens of their
former selves thirty years ago. Updike, who is now 76,
may be impatiently damning and mocking the entire
American way of life, with its superf...more

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Mar 01, 2009

Johnsergeant rated it

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Narrated by Kate Reading
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Publisher's Summary
More than three decades have passed since the events described in John Updike's The Witches of Eastwick. The three divorcées - Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie - have left town, remarried, and become widows. They cope with their grief and solitude as widows do: they travel the world, to such foreign lands as Canada, Egypt, and China, and renew old acquaintance. Why not, Sukie and Jane ask Alexandra, go back to Eastwick...more

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Aug 02, 2011

Lisa rated it

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Picks up 30 years after Witches of Eastwick left off, the witches, now widows are far from Eastwick. Jane the least likable slutty one in CT, Sukie, the young, slutty one, in MA, and Alexandra, the old slutty one has gone the farthest, Taos, NM. Alexandra (by way of Updike) has a very east coast relationship with Taos, marrying a "cowboy potter" who creates his own versions of Native American pottery and most of her sections read like the intro to a NM guidebook. Updike by way of Ale...more

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Apr 15, 2009

Jocardo rated it

Shelves: library

I had to relegate this book to the dark, Pit of Despair. Reading Updike is hard. Sentences go on for pages, thoughts could last entire volumes. I know he was one of the Great American Writers. I don't dispute that. I just didn't like this book. The first one was okay, and I forged through. But I've decided that life is too short for bad fiction and now I am not feeling so badly about not finishing books. The POD is getting bigger all the time!

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Sep 30, 2011

Tracy Walters rated it

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When I read most of the reviews on this book.......I was a bit frustrated to think I spent money on this audio book and I probably won't like it since I didn't like the Witches of Eastwick all that much and most of the people that read this book were saying it just wasn't as good as the first one.

Well.....I was pleasantly surprised....I actually liked this book better than the first....I enjoyed the 3 women/witches as elderly women and the things they thought about and the traveling ...more

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Jul 20, 2011

Erin rated it

This got abysmal reviews when it was first published, but when I saw a hardcover copy for $5 at my local independent bookstore (Taylor Books) I snapped it up (tangent: when I got it home I noticed it has what appears to be the small box with numbers on the back of the dust jacket, which usually means a book club book....how do those get to stores? Remaindered? Something else?).

Anyway, enjoyed it more than I thought I might, given those reviews. I LOVED The Witches of Eastwick a...more

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Jan 08, 2009

Bookmarks Magazine rated it

If it weren�t for the popular film version (1987), it�s not certain that The Witches of Eastwick�playful rather than powerful like the Rabbit novels and accused by some of misogynist leanings�would have remained as popular as it did. Yet, despite lukewarm reviews, those who enjoyed that first novel may find something to like in this sequel. Widows resurrects the fun of the original, and Updike is, as usual, a master stylist with sharp, sensual writing. Some critics, however, were thrown off by t...more

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Mar 03, 2011

Sam rated it

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Shelves: fantasy

Okay, so I haven’t read the Witches yet but I’ve seen the film a few times and have even seen the stage show with Marti Pellow as Darryl Van Horne so I know enough to be able to enjoy the sequel (theoretically). However this book was a bit of a disappointment. The three witches (now widows) seem to have lost all their pizzazz, which I expected them to still have a bit of, despite their ages. Granted they have been struggling to live with ‘guilt’ of what they did in Eastwick all those years ag...more

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Sep 08, 2010

Susan rated it

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This story was interesting enough, but not quite a good as Witches of Eastwick. The beginning rambled on about foreign trips some of the witches took alone, and with each other. It was quite a wait till we got to Eastwick again.

It was nice to have them reunited in town and shown all the changes that happened over the years but there wasn't much magic, unlike the previous book.

However, all this being said, I really enjoyed the story. The personalities of all the women we...more

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Jul 04, 2009

Sheryl rated it

Updike catches us up on the lives of the three witches since they left Eastwick. They each conjure up a husband, and move apart to new lives. They come together again after all of their husbands die, and decide to visit Eastwick. Even though 30 years has passed, their reputations live on, and they begin to suspect someone is trying to use magic to seek revenge against them.

I listened to this audiobook, and was glad it had the same narrator as The Witches of Eastwick. She does an ex...more

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May 14, 2009

Chris rated it

This book was not very good at all and reminded me of why I never read more than one of his other books. It didn't seem like he had much to say so he had to fill in with a travelogue, physics lessons, gratuitous sex, and even a pathetic bodice ripper. It gets my goat when men presume to write from the perspective of women (a notable exception being the author of The Last Living Confederate War Widow Tells All). He did not hit the right notes to make the characters come alive and I didn't like a...more

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Jan 20, 2010

Andrea rated it

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After 30 years, the 3 witches have reunited to travel the world and eventually return to Eastwick for the summer. You may think/hope that since these women have finally reached the Crone stage of life (read: wise woman elder), they'd be chilled-out, deep, and able to see behind the veils of this shallow world into the truth beyond. Or something like that. Either way, they don't. They are crabby and they bitch and moan about every little thing. I actually had to put the book down for a few days b...more

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Jun 10, 2009

Jose Santos rated it

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Shelves: 2009

Neste livro, vamos encontrar as três bruxas de Eastwick, Alexandra, Jane e Sukie, muitos anos depois do que se passou em Eastwick, a viverem em locais distantes umas das outras.
A sua condição de viúvas volta a juntá-las e um regresso a Eastwick parece eminente. Mas seria realmente necessário?

A leitura deste livro foi como rever velhas amigas!
Não é tão bom como o 'As Bruxas de Eastwick' mas está muito interessante. Escrito com a calma que reflecte a idade das personagens, ...more

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Oct 21, 2010

Kylin Larsson rated it

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I think the only reason I finished this book was that I start to get a little twitchy if I'm not reading something, and this was the only book on hand. I'd say the plot was bad, but there really wasn't a plot. Instead, there was theme of fear--of everything. This reads like a collection of rants, bouncing from topic to topic: fear of cancer; fear of not finding a parking spot; fear of aging; fear of not being a good parent.

There was a twinkle of a conflict that could have ascended in...more

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Jan 17, 2009

Tracy O rated it

Recommends it for: Only the Most Hardcore Witches Fans - and Maybe Not Even Them

Recommended to Tracy O by: Financial Times Book Review

Liz said that when poets run out of things in their life to write about they start writing poems about art. I kept thinking about that for the first 100 pages of this book which were a tedious log of travel details in the Canadian Rockies and Egypt. The first Witches was so rich with the emotional lives of the 3 women. While I really enjoyed reconnecting with these characters and some of the great insights and clarity of Updike's prose, I just felt disappointed in how pale this was - there wa...more

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Dec 08, 2009

David rated it

So when I clicked the "read" option to bookshelf this poor excuse of a novel, I ending up wishing there was an option saying, "I gave up on this piece of shit nearly 95 pages into it because it was an even MORE watered-down version of Updike's alleged 'feminism' found in The Witches of Eastwick."

I wanted to give this guy the benefit of the doubt, hoping that perhaps after 25 years he might have evolved past the Silent Generation's warped social views, and maybe ev...more

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Feb 28, 2009

Hank Mishkoff added it

This is like two books in one.

In the first half of the book, nothing happens, it's all character re-development using the device of a series of travelogues. It's like reading "What I Did on My Last Three Summer Vacations," by John Updike. Elegantly written, as you'd expect, but no action whatsoever.

The second half of the book is completely different, as the widows return to Eastwick, only to learn how much it, and they, have changed. But traces of witchiness rem...more

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Dec 29, 2008

Jennifer rated it

Not as good as the Witches of Eastwick, I must say I was a bit disappointed by this sequel. How many times can Updike use the description "pequant" in one novel? I was disappointed with the elderly loss of power, and the loss of connection. Nothing like a feminist revolution to spark 3 women into action and open dialogue regarding discontent in unhappy marriages and unfulfilling roles as mothers- but to age them and find them afraid of the power they had once tapped into- this was s...more

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