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Cargando... The Widows of Eastwick (2008)por John Updike
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This has been on my bookshelf for years and perhaps I should have just left it there. For two-thirds of the book, I couldn't see where the book is going. At times, it felt like a travelogue with its extensive descriptions of Canada, Egypt, and China. There's also something about Nature I didn't understand. The book made more sense later, or at least I found some reason for reading the book when the witches shared their fears of aging and sickness, and Alexandra found some family warmth. Minus the witchcraft, it's just about three lonely women. ( ) After reading the Witches earlier this year, had to do the sequel too...it's 30+ years since the trio afflicted rival Jenny with terminal cancer, and rode off into the sunset, each with a new man. But while Updike's books are full of sex and sin, he always introduces a note of "God will not be mocked" ...and here the three all find themselves widows, and, eventually, return to Eastwick for the summer. There are sundry faces from the past; and the witches - no longer (quite) the playful minxes of yesteryear, but troubled with old lady complaints - find that their crimes still exact punishment. Did it finish a tad up in the air? It was still a darn good read and John Updike remains unquestionably my favourite author. I read Witches after ripping through the Rabbit Angstrom books at the age of 16 or so. Rabbit, Run was assigned reading in one of my high school classes. These books are so preoccupied with sexual liberation and power; about people choking on the yoke of gender roles. Did anybody else read them at that age? The Rabbit books shifted the ground under my feet. Maybe it’s better to read them before reaching marriage, kids and full-blown, irreversible adulthood. Or maybe not? Updike’s language is so ripe, so honestly horny (and yes: chauvinistic, misogynistic, etc.). Nothing much has changed twenty-odd years later except the preoccupation this time is with death rather than sex. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. Um ... a little disappointed here. Updike's writing is beautiful, but I forced myself to finish this book. It didn't absorb me in the way Witches did, which of course, is always the risk and usually the case with sequels. The best approach to this book is to read it as a standalone work, and not with an eye to its predecessor. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie return to the old Rhode Island seaside town where they indulged in wicked mischief under the influence of the diabolical Darryl Van Horne. Darryl is gone, and their lovers of the time have aged or died, but enchantment remains in the familiar streets and scenery of the village, where they enjoyed their lusty primes as free and empowered women. And, among the local citizenry, there are still those who remember them, and wish them ill. How they cope with the lingering traces of their evil deeds, the shocks of a mysterious counterspell, and the advancing inroads of old age are at the heart of Updike's delightful, ominous sequel.--From publisher description. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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