Marry Me

When a history professor - Alfred Clayton, the hero of John Updike's fifteenth novel - is asked to record his impressions of the Ford Administration, he recalls a turbulent piece of personal history as well: his unfinished book on 19th-century president James Buchanan.

In this sequel to Rabbit, Run, John Updike resumes the spiritual quest of his anxious Everyman, Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom. Ten years have passed; the impulsive former athlete has become a paunchy thirty-six-year-old conservative, and Eisenhower’s becalmed America has become 1969’s lurid turmoil of technology, fantasy, drugs, and violence. Rabbit is abandoned by his family, his home invaded by a runaway and a radical, his past reduced to a ruined inner landscape; still he clings to semblances of...

The air of Eastwick breeds witches - women whose powerful longings can stir up thunderstorms and fracture domestic peace. Jane, Alexandra and Sukie, divorced and dangerous, have formed a coven. Into the void of Eastwick breezes Darryl Van Horne, a charismatic magus of a man who entrances the trio, luring them to his mansions...

Иствикские ведьмы (The Witches of Eastwick). Книга для чтения на английском языке. Уровень В1. .Жизнь в Иствике скучна и размеренна, но не зря говорят, что в тихом омуте черти водятся. Здесь обитают настоящие ведьмы. Правда, они не летают в ступе и не приносят жертвы в полнолуние, наоборот, заняты тем же, чем и обычные горожанки: изо всех сил пытаются найти своё счастье, но на деле их жизни наполняют интрижки, семейные проблемы, заботы о детях, болезни… Спокойный быт трёх ведьм и тихую жизнь...