by Gregory Maguire
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 series sophisticated fantasy cycle inspired by the classic children's novel The Wizard of Oz became 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. Its 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 broom and her legacy in 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 surprises the hallmarks of the unique imagination of Gregory Maguire.
Out of Oz: The Final Volume in the Wicked Years (Wicked Years, 4)by Gregory Magu
Gregory Maguire is the bestselling author Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. With its three sequels, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz, the quartet is known as the Wicked Years. It was followed up by a trilogy called Another Day (The Brides of Maracoor, The Oracle of Maracoor, and The Witch of Maracoor), which continues the saga begun in Wicked. These books have have earned him rave reviews and a dedicated following.
The Broadway musical based on Wicked is now the fourth longest running play in Broadway history. The play has inspired a two-film project being released in 2024 and 2025, starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande.
Maguire has written ten other adult novels and twenty children's novels. He received his doctorate in English Literature from Tufts University, and has taught at Simmons College and other Boston area colleges.
He has also served as an artist-in-residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
Having lived in Dublin and London, Maguire now makes his home in New England and in France with his husband, the painter Andy Newman, and several of their adopted children.
Publisher: William Morrow (November 1, 2011)
Language: English
Hardcover: 592 pages
ISBN-10: 0060548940
ISBN-13: 9780060548940
Item Weight: 1.85 pounds
Dimensions: 1.7 x 6.5 x 9.2 inches
Books - Fiction | Fantasy | Epic
Books - Fiction | Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
Books - Fiction | Satire
Books - Fiction | Literary
Books - Fiction | Animals
Books - Fiction | Coming of Age
Books - Fiction | Media Tie-In
Books - Fiction | Adaptations & Pastiche
-Oz (Imaginary place) -Fantasy fiction
- Topical | Coming of Age
Dewey: FIC
LC Call Number: PS3563.A3535
LCCN: 2011012032
Books is VGF condition, has a bookplate inside inscribed