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Wicked by Gregory Maguire (Paperback)

Wicked by Gregory Maguire (Paperback)

THe Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
by Maguire, Gregory
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In Wicked, a take-off on The Wizard of Oz, Maguire describes the attempt of a witch named Elphaba to live forthrightly in a totalitarian Oz.

  • Author: Maguire, Gregory
  • ISBN: 9780060987107
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 406
  • Publish Date: 9/27/1996
  • Series: The Wicked Years Book 1 of 3
  • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
  • Language: English

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Author:
Maguire, Gregory
ISBN:
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Publish Date:
10/01/1996
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      When I read the synopsis of this book, I thought it was such a unique idea. You would think that the Wizard of Oz is an innocent enough story. Well, the author has completely RUINED the story of the Wizard of Oz. This was the most vulger and obsene book I have ever read in my entire life! The sensual comments have nothing to do with the story and are as disgusting as you can even imagine!

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  • Born with green skin and huge teeth, like a dragon, the free-spirited Elphaba grows up to be an anti-totalitarian agitator, an animal-rights activist, a nun, then a nurse who tends the dyingand, ultimately, the headstrong Wicked Witch of the West in the land of Oz. Maguire's strange and imaginative postmodernist fable uses L. Frank Baum's Wonderful Wizard of Oz as a springboard to create a tense realm inhabited by humans, talking animals (a rhino librarian, a goat physician), Munchkinlanders, dwarves and various tribes. The Wizard of Oz, emperor of this dystopian dictatorship, promotes Industrial Modern architecture and restricts animals' right to freedom of travel; his holy book is an ancient manuscript of magic that was clairvoyantly located by Madam Blavatsky 40 years earlier. Much of the narrative concerns Elphaba's troubled youth (she is raised by a giddy alcoholic mother and a hermitlike minister father who transmits to her his habits of loathing and self-hatred) and with her student years. Dorothy appears only near novel's end, as her house crash-lands on Elphaba's sister, the Wicked Witch of the East, in an accident that sets Elphaba on the trail of the girl from Kansasas well as the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodsman and the Lionand her fabulous new shoes. Maguire combines puckish humor and bracing pessimism in this fantastical meditation on good and evil, God and free will, which should, despite being far removed in spirit from the Baum books, captivate devotees of fantasy. 50,000 first printing; $75,000 ad/promo; first serial to Word; author tour. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
 
 
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