Her instinct, as with so many a wife suddenly liberated into solitude, was to travel - as if the world at large, by way of flimsy boarding cards and tedious airport delays and the faint but undeniable risk of flight in a time of rising fuel costs, airline bankruptcy, suicidal terrorists, and accumulating metal fatigue, could be compelled to yield the fruitful aggravation of having a mate. Satan counterfeits Creation, yes, but with inferior goods.Īlexandra, the oldest in age, the broadest in body, and the nearest in character to normal, generous-spirited humanity, was the first to become a widow. Those of us acquainted with their sordid and scandalous story were not surprised to hear, by way of rumors from the various localities where the sorceresses had settled after fleeing our venerable town of Eastwick, Rhode Island, that the husbands whom the three Godforsaken women had by their dark arts concocted for themselves did not prove durable.
He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and has received the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Updike is the author of more than 50 books, most recently Due Considerations, Licks of Love, Villages and Terrorist. "But the way in which we are alive is meaningful," Updike says, "and it does have a certain radiance - the beauty of the actual. Writing about "ordinary life," Updike says, is a big problem for fiction writers everyday lives do not involve heroism or extraordinary crises. Updike says the witches presented themselves as "a way to write about old age and aging and losing your powers."
"It was nice to be back in their company, even though they had aged 30 years," Updike says, "I, too, had aged 30 years. Thirty years have passed, and Alexandra, Jane and Sukie - now The Widows of Eastwick - are back in their seaside Rhode Island town coming to terms with their declining power and sexuality.
John Updike's once unstoppable magic sisters return to their former haunts in the sequel to his 1984 novel The Witches of Eastwick. This I Believe John Updike's Essay For 'This I Believe'
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