The principal character in the widows of eastwick is the town itself, and updike makes it more sensually real than ones own neighborhood. To request any book join our telegram channel now by clicking here. First published in 2008, it is a sequel to his novel the witches of eastwick plot. They cope with their grief and solitude as widows do. The witches of eastwick is a 1984 novel by american writer john updike. But what was then a center of license and liberation is now a haven of wholesomeness populated by hockey moms and.
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