Wicked : the life and times of the Wicked Witch of the West : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062853196
- ISBN: 0062853198
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Physical Description:
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433 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. - Edition: 25th anniversary edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2020]
- Copyright: ℗♭1995.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "With a new afterword by the author."--Back cover. |
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Subject: | Witches -- Fiction Oz (Imaginary place) -- Fiction Good and evil -- Fiction |
Genre: | Fantasy fiction. Fiction. Fantasy fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Sitka.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Portage la Prairie Regional Library | AF MAG v. 1 (Text) | 3675000201852 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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Soon to be a major motion picture starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande
A giftable, special 25th anniversary hardcover edition of the beloved multi-million-copy-bestselling novel and basis of the Tony Awardâwinning musicalâincluding a new essay from Gregory Maguire on the nature of fantasy, âThe World at Hand, the World Next Door.â Perfect for Wicked fans!
With millions of copies in print around the world, Gregory Maguireâs 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 Baumâs 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.Â
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 skinâno 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 Ozâs most promising young citizens.
But Elphabaâs Oz is no utopia. The Wizardâs secret police are everywhere. Animalsâthose creatures with voices, souls, and mindsâare threatened with exile. Young Elphaba, green and wild and misunderstood, is determined to protect the Animalsâeven 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.Â
Recognized as an iconoclastic tour de force on its initial publication, the novel has inspired the blockbuster musical of the same nameâone of the longest-running plays in Broadway history. Popular, indeed. But while the novelâs distant cousins hail from the traditions of magical realism, mythopoeic fantasy, and sprawling nineteenth-century sagas of moral urgency, Maguireâs Wicked is as unique as its green-skinned witch.Â