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Wicked Years Ser.: Wicked : The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire (2000, Trade Paperback)

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The New York Times bestseller and basis for the Tony-winning hit musical, soon to be a major motion picture starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande With millions of copies in print around the world, Gregory Maguire's Wicked is established not only as a commentary on our time but as a novel to revisit for years to come. Wicked relishes the inspired inventions of L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz , while playing sleight of hand with our collective memories of the 1939 MGM film starring Margaret Hamilton (and Judy Garland). In this fast-paced, fantastically real, and supremely entertaining novel, Maguire has populated the largely unknown world of Oz with the power of his own imagination. Years before Dorothy and her dog crash-land, another little girl makes her presence known in Oz. This girl, Elphaba, is born with emerald-green skin--no easy burden in a land as mean and poor as Oz, where superstition and magic are not strong enough to explain or overcome the natural disasters of flood and famine. Still, Elphaba is smart, and by the time she enters Shiz University, she becomes a member of a charmed circle of Oz's most promising young citizens. But Elphaba's Oz is no utopia. The Wizard's secret police are everywhere. Animals--those creatures with voices, souls, and minds--are threatened with exile. Young Elphaba, green and wild and misunderstood, is determined to protect the Animals--even if it means combating the mysterious Wizard, even if it means risking her single chance at romance. Ever wiser in guilt and sorrow, she can find herself grateful when the world declares her a witch. And she can even make herself glad for that young girl from Kansas. Recognized as an iconoclastic tour de force on its initial publication, the novel has inspired the blockbuster musical of the same name--one of the longest-running plays in Broadway history. Popular, indeed. But while the novel's distant cousins hail from the traditions of magical realism, mythopoeic fantasy, and sprawling nineteenth-century sagas of moral urgency, Maguire's Wicked is as unique as its green-skinned witch.

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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0060987103
ISBN-13
9780060987107
eBay Product ID (ePID)
20432

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Book Title
Wicked : the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Wicked : the Inspiration for the Smash Broadway Musical and the Upcoming Major Motion Pictures
Author
Gregory Maguire
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Fantasy / Contemporary, Fantasy / General, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Literary
Publication Year
2000
Book Series
Wicked Years Ser.
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
448 Pages, 432 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.3 in
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Item Weight
17.5 Oz

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Intended Audience
Trade
Series Volume Number
1
Lc Classification Number
Ps3563.A3535w5 1995
Reviews
Maguire did something truly remarkable with this novel, in managing to inhabit, enlarge, deepen and find new dimensions in a world that had been invented by another writer, and in doing so make something entirely new. It's an astonishing achievement.
Copyright Date
1995
Lccn
95-000669
Dewey Decimal
813.54
Dewey Edition
22

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Wicked Years Ser.: Wicked : The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire (2000, Trade Paperback)

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