Son of a Witch

Volume Two In The Wicked Years

Gregory Maguire

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Miscellaneous
12 November 2024

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Adventure; Fantasy; Myth & legend told as fiction; Fiction: special features; Fantasy

Series: The Wicked Years

The New York Times bestselling sequel to Wicked, the multimillion-copy bestseller and basis for the Tony Award–winning hit musical, soon to be a major motion picture starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande.

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.

Gregory Maguire returns to the world of Wicked and 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 he power of his own Can he liberate Princess Nastoya into a dignified death Can he locate his supposed half-sister, Nor, last seen in shackles in the Wizard’s protection Can he survive in an Oz little improved since the death of the Wicked Witch of the West Can he learn to fly

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.

By: Gregory Maguire
Imprint: Miscellaneous
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 2
Dimensions: Height: 202mm, Width: 136mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 294g
ISBN: 9780063398368
ISBN 10: 0063398362
Series: The Wicked Years
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 12 November 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gregory Maguire is the New York Times bestselling author of the Wicked Years, a series that includes Wicked--the beloved classic that is the basis for the blockbuster Tony Award-winning Broadway musical of the same name and the major motion picture--Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz. His series Another Day continues the story of Oz with The Brides of Maracoor, The Oracle of Maracoor, and The Witch of Maracoor, and his other novels include A Wild Winter Swan, Hiddensee, After Alice, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Lost, and Mirror Mirror. He lives in New England and France.

Reviews for Son of a Witch: Volume Two In The Wicked Years

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