![]() ![]() magical telling of the land of Oz before and up to the arrival of Dorothy and company. Gregory Maguire's shrewdly imagined and beautifully written first novel, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, not only revives her but re-envisions and redeems her for our times." - Newsday. It is for good readers who like satire, and love exceedingly imaginative and clever fantasy." - Library Journal. Wicked is not an easy rereading of The Wizard of Oz. ![]() "The multiple threads to the plot proceed unevenly, so that the pace of the story jumps rather than moves steadily forward. ![]() "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." - Publishers Weekly. ![]()
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