The Witches of Eastwick

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.

Sally is big, blonde and pampered. She's married to Richard. But she loves Jerry. Jerry loves Sally in return, but he's also still in love with his wife Ruth. Who's been sleeping with Richard… As a hot, feverish summer of snatched weekends, secret phone calls and illicit lovemaking on the beach comes to a head, it turns out everyone knows more than they've been letting on. And that no one knows quite when to stop.

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...

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...