A Lion Among Men - Signed & inscribed
Language: English
Published by William Morrow, NY, 2008
Series: Book 3 of 4 - The Wicked Years
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Condition: Used - Very good
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William Morrow, NY, 2008, 312 pages. First/First in Very Good/Very Good+ condition, with uniform page toning, and some foxing to text block edges, and a bit of shelfwear/edgewear to dj. Otherwise tight, square, and unclipped (please review photos). The author has Signed & inscribed on 1/2 title page. This is volume 3 in the Wicked years series. All books bubble wrapped and shipped promptly in a box. Multi-colored illustrated boards.
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- Title
- A Lion Among Men - Signed & inscribed
- Author
- Gregory Maguire
- Publisher
- William Morrow, NY
- Publication year
- 2008
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good+
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0060548924
- ISBN 13
- 9780060548926
- Edition
- First/First.
- Series
- Book 3 of 4: The Wicked Years
- Seller catalogs
- Children, Fantasy & Sci Fi
Return to a darker Oz with Gregory Maguire. In A Lion Among Men, the third volume in Maguire’s acclaimed, New York Times bestselling series The Wicked Years, a fuller, more complex Cowardly Lion is brought to life and gets to tell his remarkable tale. It is a story of oppression and fear in a world gone mad with war fever—of Munchkins, Wizards, and Wicked Witches—and especially of a gentle soul and determined survivor who is truly A Lion Among Men.
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From the Back Cover
"Hardly more than a kitten . . . I had thought to call it Prrr, but it shivers more often than it purrs, so I call it Brrr instead."
"From Wicked
Since Wicked was first published in 1995, millions of readers have discovered Gregory Maguire's fantastically encyclopedic Oz, a world filled with characters both familiar and new, darkly conceived and daringly reimagined. In the much-anticipated third volume of the Wicked Years, we return to Oz, seen now through the eyes of the Cowardly Lion'the once tiny cub defended by Elphaba in Wicked.
While civil war looms in Oz, a tetchy oracle named Yackle prepares for death. Before her final hour, an enigmatic figure known as Brrr'the Cowardly Lion'arrives searching for information about Elphaba Thropp, the Wicked Witch of the West. As payment, Yackle, who hovered on the sidelines of Elphaba's life, demands some answers of her own.
Brrr surrenders his story to the ailing maunt: Abandoned as a cub, his earliest memories are gluey hazes, and his path from infancy in the Great Gillikin Forest is no Yellow Brick Road. Seeking to redress an early mistake, he trudges through a swamp of ghosts, becomes implicated in a massacre of trolls, and falls in love with a forbidding Cat princess. In the wake of laws that oppress talking Animals, he avoids a jail sentence by agreeing to serve as a lackey to the war-mongering Emperor of Oz.
A Lion Among Men chronicles a battle of wits hastened by the Emerald City's approaching armies. What does the Lion know of the whereabouts of the Witch's boy, Liir? What can Yackle reveal about the auguries of the Clock of the Time Dragon? And what of the Grimmerie, the magic book that vanished as quickly as Elphaba? Is destiny ever arbitrary? Can those tarnished by infamy escape their sobriquets'cowardly, wicked, brainless, criminally earnest'to claim their own histories, to live honorably within their own skins before they're skinned alive?
At once a portrait of a would-be survivor and a panoramic glimpse of a world gone shrill with war fever, Gregory Maguire's new novel is written with the sympathy and power that have made his books contemporary classics.
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