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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100060548932
ISBN-139780060548933
eBay Product ID (ePID)45597892
Product Key Features
Book TitleSon of a Witch : a Novel
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2005
TopicFantasy / General, Fantasy / Contemporary, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Action & Adventure
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorGregory Maguire
Book SeriesWicked Years Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight20.2 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2005-046232
ReviewsA tale that adroitly mixes drama, humor, and political satire into a well-knit examination of good and evil., "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, Maguire's captivating, fully imagined world of horror and wonder illuminates the links between good and evil, retribution and forgiveness., For Wicked:"I fell quickly and totally under the spell of this remarkable, wry, and fully realized story.", Maguire has done it again: Son of a Witch is as wicked as they come. . . . Thoroughly entertaining.
Dewey Edition22
Series Volume Number2
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisThe Wicked Years continue in Gregory Maguire's Son of a Witch --the heroic saga of the hapless yet determined young man who may or may not be the offspring of the fabled Wicked Witch of the West. A New York Times bestseller like its predecessor, the remarkable Wicked, Son of a Witch follows the boy Liir on his dark odyssey across an ingeniously re-imagined and nearly unrecognizable Land of Oz--a journey that will take him deep into the bowels of the Emerald City, lately abandoned by the Wizard, and into the jaws of dragons. At once a grim fairy tale and an uplifting adventure, Son of a Witch is a true wonder., The long-anticipated sequel to the million-copy bestselling novel Wicked Ten years after the publication of Wicked, beloved novelist Gregory Maguire returns at last to the land of Oz. There he introduces us to Liir, an adolescent boy last seen hiding in the shadows of the castle after Dorothy did in the Witch. Bruised, comatose, and left for dead in a gully, Liir is shattered in spirit as well as in form. But he is tended at the Cloister of Saint Glinda by the silent novice called Candle, who wills him back to life with her musical gifts. What dark force left Liir in this condition Is he really Elphaba's son He has her broom and her cape - but what of her powers Can he find his supposed half-sister, Nor, last seen in the forbidding prison, Southstairs Can he fulfill the last wishes of a dying princess In an Oz that, since the Wizard's departure, is under new and dangerous management, can Liir keep his head down long enough to grow up For the countless fans who have been dazzled and entranced by Maguire's Oz, Son of a Witch is the rich reward they have awaited so long., The Wicked Years continue in Gregory Maguire'sSon of a Witch --the heroic saga of the hapless yet determined young man who may or may not be the offspring of the fabled Wicked Witch of the West. A New York Times bestseller like its predecessor, the remarkable Wicked, Son of a Witch follows the boy Liir on his dark odyssey across an ingeniously re-imagined and nearly unrecognizable Land of Oz--a journey that will take him deep into the bowels of the EmeraldCity, lately abandoned by the Wizard, and into the jaws of dragons. At once a grim fairy tale and an uplifting adventure,Son of a Witch is a true wonder.
LC Classification NumberPS3563.A3535S66 2005
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