Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Wicked Years, 1)

Author: Maguire, GregoryBrand: HarperEdition: Mass Paperback EditionFeatures: PaperbackBinding: Mass Market PaperbackFormat: IllustratedNumber Of Pages: 560Release Date: 25-09-2007Part Number: 9780061350962Details: Product Description 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 and greener (not rosier) lens. 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. Review "Maguire did something truly remarkable with this novel, in managing to inhabit, enlarge, deepen and find new dimensions in a world that had been invented by another writer, and in doing so make something enti