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Son of a Witch: A Novel

2010-12-24 
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 Son of a Witch: A Novel


基本信息·出版社:Harper Paperbacks
·页码:352 页
·出版日期:2006年10月
·ISBN:0060747226
·International Standard Book Number:0060747226
·条形码:9780060747220
·EAN:9780060747220
·装帧:平装
·正文语种:英语
·丛书名:The Wicked Years
·外文书名:巫师之子(小说)

内容简介

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 to 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.


作者简介

Gregory Maguire is the bestselling author of Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Lost, Mirror Mirror, and the Wicked Years, a series that includes Wicked, Son of a Witch, and A Lion Among Men. Wicked, now a beloved classic, is the basis for the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical of the same name. Maguire has lectured on art, literature, and culture both at home and abroad. He lives with his family near Boston, Massachusetts.


媒体推荐 An amazing novel. -- ??John Updike
编辑推荐 Maguire is full of storytelling brio . . . his Oz is meticulously drawn. (New York Times )^"Maguire's captivating, fully imagined world of horror and wonder illuminates the links between good and evil, retribution and forgiveness." (People )^For Wicked:"I fell quickly and totally under the spell of this remarkable, wry, and fully realized story." (-Wally Lamb, author of She's Come Undone and I Know This Much is True )^"Maguire has done it again: Son of a Witch is as wicked as they come. . . . Thoroughly entertaining." (Boston Globe )^"Save a place on the shelf between Alice and The Hobbit-that spot is well deserved." (-Kirkus Reviews )^"A tale that adroitly mixes drama, humor, and political satire into a well-knit examination of good and evil." (Library Journal )^"As fantastical as a novel set in Oz should be." (Entertainment Weekly )
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