Son of a Witch (The Wicked Years) - Softcover

Maguire, Gregory

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061719781 ISBN 13: 9780061719783

Publisher: Harperluxe, 2009

Synopsis

Pub Date: 2009-01-06 Pages: 560 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins US The long-anticipated sequel to the million-copy bestselling novel Wicked Ten years after the publication of Wicked. beloved novelist Gregory Maguire returns at last to the land of Oz. There he introduces us to Liir. an adolescent boy last seen hiding in the shadows of the castle after Dorothy did in the Witch. Bruised. comatose. and left for dead in a gully. Liir is shattered in spirit as well as in form .. But he is tended at the Cloister of Saint Glinda by the silent novice called Candle. who wills him back to life with her musical gifts What dark force left Liir in this condition Is he really Elphabas son He has her broom and her cape - - but what of her powers Can he find his supposed half-sister. Nor. last seen in the forbidding prison. Southstairs Can he fulfill the last wishes of a dying pri...

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Product Description:

The Wicked Years continue in Gregory Maguire's Son of a Witch--the heroic saga of the hapless yet determined young man who may or may not be the offspring of the fabled Wicked Witch of the West. A New York Times bestseller like its predecessor, the remarkable Wicked, Son of a Witch follows the boy Liir on his dark odyssey across an ingeniously re-imagined and nearly unrecognizable Land of Oz--a journey that will take him deep into the bowels of the Emerald City, lately abandoned by the Wizard, and into the jaws of dragons. At once a grim fairy tale and an uplifting adventure, Son of a Witch is a true wonder.

Review:

"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

"A tale that adroitly mixes drama, humor, and political satire into a well-knit examination of good and evil."--Library Journal

"Maguire's captivating, fully imagined world of horror and wonder illuminates the links between good and evil, retribution and forgiveness."--People

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 is full of storytelling brio . . . his Oz is meticulously drawn."--New York Times

"Save a place on the shelf between Alice and The Hobbit--that spot is well deserved."----Kirkus Reviews

"An amazing novel."----John Updike

About this edition

• Publisher: Harperluxe
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0061719781
• ISBN 13: 9780061719783
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 536