Out of Oz (Wicked Years, #4)
“Maguire’s work is melodic, symphonic, and beautiful; it is dejected and biting and brave. How great that people flock to these magical novels.”—Los Angeles Times Book ReviewBestselling author Gregory Maguire’s remarkable series, The Wicked Years, comes full circle with this, his fourth and final...
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“Maguire’s work is melodic, symphonic, and beautiful; it is dejected and biting and brave. How great that people flock to these magical novels.”—Los Angeles Times Book ReviewBestselling author Gregory Maguire’s remarkable series, The Wicked Years, comes full circle with this, his fourth and final excursion across a darker, richer, more complex landscape of “the magical land of Oz.” Out of Oz brilliantly reimagines L. Frank Baum’s world over the rainbow as wracked with social unrest—placing Glinda the good witch under house arrest and having the cowardly Lion on the lam from the law as the Emerald City prepares to make war on Munchkinland. Even Dorothy makes a triumphant return in Maguire’s magnificent Oz finale—tying up every loose green end of the series he began with his classic Wicked, the basis for the smash hit Broadway musical.
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B0050COHHK
Publish date: November 1st 2011
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 568
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Magic,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Paranormal,
Novels,
Witches,
Literature,
Adult Fiction,
Adult,
Fairy Tales,
Retellings
Series: The Wicked Years (#4)
In the conclusion to his series "The Wicked Years" Gregory Maguire tells us the story of what has become of all the key players throughout the books, up to and including Dorothy. We start our adventure at Mockbegger, where General Cherrystone has imprisoned Glinda, and unwittingly lets Elphaba's gra...
I enjoyed the book enough to read to the end, but I was hoping for a more concrete ending. It seemed like way too many loose ends were left unraveled.
I can say with a minimum of the exaggeration that accompanies this kind of statement that 'The Wizard of Oz' is one of the most important books in my life. One of the first real books I was able to read to myself and the subject of many happy memories.Initially I disliked 'Wicked' when I read it for...
Although it's too long and too full of ideas, the final novel of The Wicked Years is Maguire's best book since Wicked. It's full of magic again, chock full of characters we've met before and a handful of new ones. Plotlines are mostly resolved and Oz is left in relatively good shape. But I also c...
I am going to try this one again. I just couldn't get into to it....