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Son of a Witch
Gregory Maguire
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Description for Son of a Witch
Paperback. The second dazzling and entrancing novel in Gregory Maguire's bestselling Wicked series Num Pages: 512 pages, Map. BIC Classification: FM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 30. Weight in Grams: 412.
The global bestselling series that inspired the hit musical phenomenon.
The sequel to Wicked - now a major movie and record-breaking box office sensation.
Back in the land of Oz, the adolescent boy Liir was last seen hiding in the shadows of the castle after Dorothy did in the Witch.
Bruised, comatose, and left for dead, Liir is tended to at the Cloister of Saint Glinda by a 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?
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?
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780755341566
SKU
V9780755341566
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About Gregory Maguire
Gregory Maguire is a bestselling author who has earned rave reviews and a dedicated following for Wicked, the first novel in the Wicked Years quartet (which also included Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men and Out of Oz), that was made into an award-winning musical. He received his doctorate in English Literature from Tufts University, and has taught at Simmons College and other Boston area colleges. He has also served as an artist-in-residence at the Blue Mountain Center, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the Hambridge Center. Gregory has lived in Dublin and London, but now makes his home near Boston, Massachusetts, with his partner, their two sons and daughter.
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