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?įor 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. 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. Bruised, comatose, and left for dead in a gully, Liir is shattered in spirit as well as in form. There he introduces us to Liir, an adolescent boy last seen hiding in the shadows of the castle after Dorothy did in the Witch. It is memory that reminds our bodies to work, and memory that reminds our spirits to work to: it keeps us who we are. It builds us up inside it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping. Son of a Witch The Wicked Years continue in Gregory Maguires Son of a Witch-the heroic saga of the hapless yet determined young man who may or may not be the offspring of the fabled Wicked Witch of the West. Ten years after the publication of Wicked, beloved novelist Gregory Maguire returns at last to the land of Oz. Gregory Maguire, Son of a Witch 173 likes Like Memory is a part of the present. The long-anticipated sequel to the million-copy bestselling novel Wicked
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