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Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0241144272
ISBN-13: 978-0241144275
Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16 x 3.2 cm
Shipping Weight: 540 g

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3.0 out of 5 stars A Hollow Swan Song, Mar 20 2009

By	Ian Gordon Malcomson (Smithers, Canada) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

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Though I've never been a great fan of Updike, having only read a couple of his novels(Rabbit series and "The Coup")and essays(something on self-consciousness) over the last thirty years, I decided to give his final work, "The Widows of Eastwick", a gander. While I am not so versed in Updike that I would consider myself capable of assessing the power of his works, I do know that he has had lot to say about the inability of humankind to reach its full potential within its appointed space. Rabbit is one of his characters who best expresses the sense of creatively seeking something better than just owning a car dealership and living out the contented life. It is in this spirit that Updike attempts to write "The Widows of Eastwick". Life has caught up with those mischievous and fun-loving witches of twenty years ago: They have left Eastwick behind - in fact banished for naively exceeding their supernatural powers - and struck out in total freedom to enjoy a world full of all kinds of spicy wonders. Years later, with their husbands and lovers passed on and their children grown up, they sense a need to return home. Life has become humdrum and now they need to take on another challenge, and their old haunts of Eastwick is it. A good portion of the story from this point on is taken up with each of witches struggling to restart their lives with new relations in a town where everything went so terribly wrong for them years before. This is not going to be an easy task because the old temptations for mischief are gone, few remember them, their bodies have aged, and life has moved on. One of the major knocks against this novel is that it ran out of steam a quarter of the way through. That is easy to see because Updike chooses to deal with each of the former witches in their separate efforts to reconnect with the past. They are no longer working in cahoots, as they were in earlier times, to humorously frustrate the forces of evil in the neighborhood. There is no sense of fun in this novel because the three main characters are dead serious on getting their lives back on track before life gives up on them. Such is the race to the end. In fairness to Updike, this novel intentionally lacks energy because everything is now in retrofit mode: three women reaching back in time in order to reclaim something special in order to move forward. While the story tends to ramble in places, that has probably more to do with the fact that Updike was working under some very severe time constraints with his own impending death. A decent read because Updike's clear and measured prose doesn't foresake in the finale.

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