- French fiction, Translations from English, Fiction, Devil
Three friends get more what they wish for when the guy of their dreams shows up in their sleepy little town. Then Darryl van Horn starts dating all three of them and reveals that they're witches. But is Darryl's offer of magical education really what it seems? Or are there some hidden motives to this man?
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Classical in form, contemporary, intimate and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
- effortlessdemanding
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- John Updike
- First published
- 1779
- Pages
- 333
- Publisher
- Shinchōsha, Random House Inc, Penguin books.
- Editions
- 60
- Language
- Spanish, fin, srp, Italian
- ISBN
- 9780141912950
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John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children's books during his career. Hundreds of his stories, reviews, and poems appeared in *The New Yorker* starting in 1954. He also wrote regularly for *The New York Review of Books.* His most famous work is his "Rabbit" series, which chronicles the life of the middle-class everyman Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom over the course of several decades,
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