Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (679 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000CCUVYQ |
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| Number of Pages | : | 542 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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Maguire combines puckish humor and bracing pessimism in this fantastical meditation on good and evil, God and free will, which should, despite being far removed in spirit from the Baum books, captivate devotees of fantasy. 50,000 first printing; $75,000 ad/promo; first serial to Word; author tour. Much of the narrative concerns Elphaba's troubled youth (she is raised by a giddy alcoholic mother and a hermitlike minister father who transmits to her his habits of loathing and self-hatred) and with her student years. . Maguire's strange and imaginative postmodernist fable uses L. From Publishers Weekly Born with green skin and huge teeth, like a dragon, the free-spirited Elphaba grows up to be an anti-totalitarian agitator, an animal-rights activist, a nun, then a nurse who tends the dying?and, ultimately, the headstrong Wicked Wit
Brilliantly inventive, Wicked offers us a radical new evaluation of one of the most feared and hated characters in all of literature: the much maligned Wicked Witch of the West who, as Maguire tells us, wasn’t nearly as Wicked as we imagined.. This is the book that started it all! The basis for the smash hit Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, Gregory Maguire's breathtaking New York Times bestseller Wicked views the land of Oz, its inhabitants, its Wizard, and the Emerald City, through a darker
There are always 2 sides to every story. Wicked does a lot more than just tell The Wizard of Oz from the Witch's point of view (which is probably a good thing, since that book would have read something along the lines of "Chapter 20: More Exciting Times With Those Creepy Flying Monkeys"). Wicked actually flips Oz on. Marvelously written, funny, too clever by half. Among the best books I have ever read. A discussion of good and evil in an alternate but not completely unfamiliar universe, the story is complex, many-layered and very funny. It touches on both the value and the absurdity of families, communities, and politics. The conversat. Amanda Merrill said Complex Material with Disappointing Development. i finished it. mostly because i kept hoping for some character development or resolution even though i began to doubt that the material was ever going to wake up from the murky green-glass lethargy that settled on everyone's spirit from the very beginning. Elphaba almost brok