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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.
Gregory Maguire is the bestselling
author of Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Lost,
Mirror Mirror, and Wicked, the basis for
the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical. Maguire has lectured
on art and culture at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
and the DeCordova Museum as well as at conferences around
the world. An occasional reviewer for the New York Times
Book Review, he lives with his family near Boston, Massachusetts,
and in Vermont.
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