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Program Type: Audiobook (Fiction); Unabridged
Narrator:
Gregory Maguire
Publisher:
Harper Audio, 2005
Length: 14 hours and 16 min.
"Masterfully imaginative....Ten years after Wicked
(which is still on Broadway), fans will once again be
clicking their heels with wonderment." (Publishers
Weekly)
"A tale that adroitly mixes drama, humor, and political
satire into a well-knit examination of good and evil." (Library
Journal)
Ten
years after the publication of Wicked, beloved
novelist Gregory Maguire returns at last 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? 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?
For 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.
Listen
to an interview with author
Gregory Maguire.
©2005
Gregory Maguire; (P)2005 HarperCollins Publishers |
