They have kids that they mostly resent and ignore, and ex-husbands that were sacrificed for their wives' independence. The three witches are all divorcees living in the small Rhode Island city of Eastwick in the Vietnam-era. Plus more than a little sex, often suddenly and roughly introduced after the reader was lulled into the pacing of the aforementioned rigorous descriptions. Interspersed with these grand paragraphs are fast-paced conversations, rambling dialogue, and meandering thoughts. Updike is obviously very smart and dang the guy can turn a phrase - he has pages and pages of heavy lifting sentences composed of phrase after descriptive phrase, long paragraphs describing houses, yards, the town of Eastwick, and the bodies and mannerisms of our three protagonist witches and the banal and slightly-magical world in which they live. It has been a while since I was so unsure how exactly I felt about a book.
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