It's a convoluted quest featuring love, loss and elves, with clear Broadway potential. The boy, named Liir, was last glimpsed in the closing pages of "Wicked," locked in the kitchen with the Cowardly Lion as Dorothy did something irreversible with a bucket of water to his "Auntie Witch." "Son of a Witch" explores what happened to Liir next. Having recreated the witch as a misunderstood feminist, a kind of pistachio-colored Kate Millett, Maguire's new novel focuses on the child who may (or may not) have been her son. Of all Oz's many and sometimes misshapen offspring, "Wicked" has been perhaps the most commercially successful: a million copies in print, a hit Broadway musical. "Wicked," a hefty prequel to Baum's children's classic, told the story - for adults - of a little green girl named Elphaba, who grew up to become the Wicked Witch of the West. Frank Baum's "Wonderful Wizard of Oz" as "the first distinctive attempt to construct a fairyland out of American materials." Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel, "Wicked," and now his "Son of a Witch," are the latest in a series of attempts to recolonize and modernize the fairyland built by Baum and MGM. In 1929, the critic Edward Wagenknecht described L.
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?įor 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.Illustrated. 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. Bruised, comatose, and left for dead in a gully, Liir is shattered in spirit as well as in form. There he introduces us to Liir, an adolescent boy last seen hiding in the shadows of the castle after Dorothy did in the Witch. Ten years after the publication of Wicked, beloved novelist Gregory Maguire returns at last to the land of Oz. The long-anticipated sequel to the million-copy bestselling novel Wicked
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