Review
From the book jacket:
Ten years after the publication of
Wicked, Gregory Maguire returns 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?...
Beyond the Book
Gregory
Maguire is the author of a
number of books including
Confessions of an Ugly
Stepsister,
Lost, Mirror
Mirror, and
Wicked,
the basis for the Tony
Award–winning
Broadway musical; and
Leaping Beauty, a
book of short stories for
children. He 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...
