Read The Witches Of Eastwick Online. The series is based on the popular movie "The Witches of Eastwick" and on the novel of the same title by John Updike. The Witches of Eastwick is about three divorced women in the New England town of Eastwick who discover that after being abandoned or divorced from their husbands, they have supernatural powers.
The Witches of Eastwick is another example of a great book being turned into a less than stellar movie.
In a small New England town in that hectic era when the sixties turned into the seventies, there lived three witches. "John Updike is the great genial sorcerer of American letters [and] The Witches of Eastwick [is one of his] most ambitious works.. . .[A] 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 divorcées with sudden access to .
If you're familiar with the movie, there's a lot in this book that you'll find familiar as well. Link your DIRECTV account to Movies Anywhere to enjoy your digital collection in one place. Praise "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 . . .