Since Updike has always been preoccupied with religion and sexuality, it is not surprising that a number of his novels share affinities with The Witches of Eastivick. Couples (1968) tells the story of men and women living in a small new England community similar to Eastwick; there, too, a veneer of respectability covers lives of desperation, longing, and sexual promiscuity. The three novels which Updike has written as a modern retelling of Hawthorne's The.....
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