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...much of his life, Updike lived in rural Massachusetts with his second wife; he leaves behind four children. He continued to write novels up until this past fall, when he published his last, The Widows of Eastwick, a sequel to his famous Witches of Eastwick from 1984. By then he was living in a world that had transformed and transformed again; from a rooftop in Brooklyn, Updike, with his own twinkly eye, watched the Twin Towers fall, an experience that inspired his novel Terrorist, which focused on a young Arab American. (See the top 10 longest sequel gaps...
Roth, Updike and Morrison have new novels out this fall, and in each of them they return to a story they first told much earlier in their careers. In The Widows of Eastwick, out Oct. 21, Updike has dreamed up a sequel to his novel of suburban sorcery, The Witches of Eastwick. In Indignation, published in September, Roth retells the story of Portnoy's Complaint, the brilliant, pneumatically obscene book that made him famous. And in A Mercy, due out in November, Morrison--the last American writer to win a Nobel Prize for Literature--tells the story of a mother...
...Widows of Eastwick, Updike revisits the three suburban housewives from Witches: Jane, Sukie and Alexandra. Old now and alone--their husbands have died of natural causes--they reunite and return to Eastwick to make peace with the many ghosts they left behind there: the rival they killed, the children they neglected, the lovers they dumped, their all-but-vanished sexuality and, not the least gruesome specter of the lot, the 1970s...
...Eastwick that the witches remember is gone. The mansion where they held their unholy revels has been cut up into condos. And they have been transformed too: Time has stripped them of the hotness that was once the source of their power. The bodies that gave them such glorious satanic leverage over the world are now dragging them down. One wonders whether anybody has ever described the small physical indignities of the aging process with as much tenderness and good humor as Updike. "Energy," Jane says. "I can't remember what it was like to have any. The thought...
...work has frequently been turned into films—often for television, but occasionally for the big screen as well. His novel The Witches of Eastwick, became a film starring Cher, Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Susan Sarandon...