The Widows of Eastwick

约翰•厄普代克的新作《东威克的遗孀们》，是其25年前的小说《东威克的巫婆们》的续篇，讲述的是三十年后"今天"的故事。如今年华已逝、婚姻不幸、又都丧夫不久的三位女主角，决定再次回到东威克，共同享受一段夏日时光。斗转星移，物事人非。当初令她们爱恨交织的神秘人，戴瑞•范•霍恩已经死了。她们的丈夫与情人们，也已经与她们阴阳相隔。曾经青春曼妙的身体，早已随着失败的婚姻和无情的复仇不复存在，取而代之的是病痛的折磨与年老体衰。然而，三个女人之间的关系依然微妙而敏感，神奇的魔力依然弥漫在东威克的空气当中。很快她们就发现，这里仍有人对她们曾经的"罪行"耿耿于怀，并且正等着看她们"恶有恶报"。
《东威克的遗孀们》延续了上一部《东威克的巫婆们》当中的整蛊风格与魔幻色彩，并进而再造出一种新的情感愿景。书中对于青春的流逝进行了敏锐的探究，用讽刺的视角观察当代美国生活，是一部带有情欲色彩的黑色幽默剧。
When the three witches - now old, remarried and widowed - decide to go back to Eastwick to spend a summer together, many things have changed. Darryl Van Horne is gone. Their husbands and lovers have gone. The lithe and supple bodies with which they wrecked marriages and wreaked havoc many years before have gone - and have been replaced with the quiet aches and encumbrances of age. But a chemistry still crackles between the three and magic still lingers in the Eastwick air, and soon it becomes clear that there are those around them who remember them, and wish them ill. "The Widows of Eastwick" takes the mischief and enchantment of "The Witches of Eastwick" and reshapes it in a new emotional landscape, resulting in a sensitive study of the passing of youth and a darkly funny novel that shines with luminous sexual reminiscences and satirical observations about modern America.