Son of a Witch: Volume Two in the Wicked Years: 2 - Softcover
Pub Date: 2009-09-29 Pages: 352 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins US The long-anticipated sequel to the beloved and hugely successful novel Wicked. now Broadways # 1 smash hit musical When a Witch dies-not as a crone. withered and incapable. but as a woman in her prime. at the height of her passion and prowess-too much is left unsaid. What might have happened had Elphaba lived Of her campaigns in defense of the Animals. of her appetite for justice. of her talent for magic itself. what good might have come If every death is a tragedy. the death of a woman in her prime keenly bereaves the whole world. Ten years after the publication of Wicked. bestselling novelist Gregory Maguire returns to the land of Oz to follow the story of Liir. the adolescent boy left hiding in the shadows of the castle when Dorothy did in the Witch. A decade after the Witch has melted away. the...
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"Save a place on the shelf between Alice and The Hobbit--that spot is well deserved."----Kirkus Reviews
"A tale that adroitly mixes drama, humor, and political satire into a well-knit examination of good and evil."--Library Journal
"Maguire is full of storytelling brio . . . his Oz is meticulously drawn."--New York Times
"As fantastical as a novel set in Oz should be."--Entertainment Weekly
"Maguire has done it again: Son of a Witch is as wicked as they come. . . . Thoroughly entertaining."--Boston Globe
For Wicked: "I fell quickly and totally under the spell of this remarkable, wry, and fully realized story."----Wally Lamb, author of She's Come Undone and I Know This Much is True
"Maguire's captivating, fully imagined world of horror and wonder illuminates the links between good and evil, retribution and forgiveness."--People
"An amazing novel."----John Updike
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"A tale that adroitly mixes drama, humor, and political satire into a well-knit examination of good and evil."--Library Journal
"Maguire is full of storytelling brio . . . his Oz is meticulously drawn."--New York Times
"As fantastical as a novel set in Oz should be."--Entertainment Weekly
"Maguire has done it again: Son of a Witch is as wicked as they come. . . . Thoroughly entertaining."--Boston Globe
For Wicked: "I fell quickly and totally under the spell of this remarkable, wry, and fully realized story."----Wally Lamb, author of She's Come Undone and I Know This Much is True
"Maguire's captivating, fully imagined world of horror and wonder illuminates the links between good and evil, retribution and forgiveness."--People
"An amazing novel."----John Updike
The second dazzling and entrancing novel in Gregory Maguire's bestselling Wicked series
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- Publication date2009
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