Gregory Maguire

Out of Oz (eBook, ePUB)

The Final Volume in the Wicked Years

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The stunning conclusion to the smash New York Times bestselling series the Wicked Years

Hailed as bewitching, remarkable, extraordinary, engrossing, amazing, and delicious, Gregory Maguire's Wicked Years seriesa sophisticated fantasy cycle inspired by the classic children's novel The Wizard of Ozbecame national bestsellers and the basis for a hit Tony-winning Broadway musical. Now, Maguire returns with the final installment in his transformative work, a thrilling and compulsively readable saga in which the fate of Oz is decided at last. . . .

Once peaceful and prosperous, the spectacular Land of Oz is knotted with social unrest: The Emerald City is mounting an invasion of Munchkinland, Glinda is under house arrest, and the Cowardly Lion is on the run from the law. And look who's knocking at the door. It's none other than Dorothy. Yes. That Dorothy.

Yet amidst all this chaos, Elphaba's granddaughter, the tiny green baby born at the close of Son of a Witch, has come of age. Now it is up to Rain to take up her broomand her legacyin an Oz wracked by war.

The stirring, long-awaited conclusion to the bestselling series begun with Wicked, Out of Oz is a magical journey rife with revelations and reversals, reprisals and surprisesthe hallmarks of the unique imagination of Gregory Maguire.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 608
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780062101235
• Artikelnr.: 38008255

Autorenporträt

Gregory Maguire is the New York Times bestselling author of the Wicked Years, a series that includes Wickedthe beloved classic that is the basis for the blockbuster Tony Awardwinning Broadway musical of the same name and the major motion pictureSon of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz. His series Another Day continues the story of Oz with The Brides of Maracoor, The Oracle of Maracoor, and The Witch of Maracoor, and his other novels include A Wild Winter Swan, Hiddensee, After Alice, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Lost, and Mirror Mirror. Some of his novels for children include Cress Watercress, Leaping Beauty, and Egg & Spoon, winner of a Boston GlobeHorn Book Award Honor. He lives in New England and France.