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Overview"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 young man Liir is discovered bruised, comatose, and left for dead in a gully. Shattered in spirit as well as in form, he is tended by the mysterious Candle, a foundling in her own right, until failed campaigns of his childhood bear late, unexpected fruit. Liir is only one part of the world that Elphaba left behind. As a boy hardly in his teens, he is asked to help the needy in ways in which he may be unskilled. Is he Elphaba's son? Has his power of his own? In ""Son of a Witch"", Gregory Maguire suggests that the magic we locate in distant, improbable places like Oz is no greater than the magic inherent in any hard life lived fully, son of a witch or no." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Gregory MaguirePublisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc Imprint: ReganBooks Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.00cm Weight: 0.390kg ISBN: 9780060747220ISBN 10: 0060747226 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 26 September 2006 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsSave a place on the shelf between Alice and The Hobbit-that spot is well deserved. -- -Kirkus Reviews Maguire is full of storytelling brio . . . his Oz is meticulously drawn. --New York Times A tale that adroitly mixes drama, humor, and political satire into a well-knit examination of good and evil. --Library Journal 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 Save a place on the shelf between Alice and The Hobbit--that spot is well deserved. ----Kirkus Reviews Maguire has done it again: Son of a Witch is as wicked as they come. . . . Thoroughly entertaining. --Boston Globe Maguire's captivating, fully imagined world of horror and wonder illuminates the links between good and evil, retribution and forgiveness. --People As fantastical as a novel set in Oz should be. --Entertainment Weekly An amazing novel. ----John Updike As fantastical as a novel set in Oz should be. --Entertainment Weekly Author InformationGregory Maguire is the bestselling author of Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, the basis for the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical of the same name together with Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Lost and Mirror Mirror. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |