Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

by Maguire, Gregory
ISBN: 9780060391447
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This is the book that started it all The basis for the smash hit Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, Gregory Maguire's breathtaking New York Times bestseller Wicked views the land of Oz, its inhabitants, its Wizard, and the Emerald City, through a darker and greener (not rosier) lens. Brilliantly inventive, Wicked offers us a radical new evaluation of one of the most feared and hated characters in all of literature: the much maligned Wicked Witch of the West who, as Maguire tells us, wasn't nearly as Wicked as we imagined.

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Author: Maguire, Gregory
  • ISBN: 9780060391447
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 9.40 x 1.40
  • Number Of Pages: 416
  • Publication Year: 2004

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  • My favorite book

    Arlandra J. - 5 years 11 months ago

    Incredible, read several times over the last 10 years

  • There are TWO Sides to Every Story!!

    Stephanie H. - 6 years 2 months ago

    Let me start off saying that, I got this book expecting it to be tied more closely to the "movie" we all know. The "movie" that we have all come to love. Instead, it turned out to be a well thought out and complex story, following the Wicked Witch of the West, from birth to death. Gregory Maguire reinvents Oz like you've never imagined it. Wicked actually flips Oz on its head, and makes you think that it could have happened - like it is almost a soap opera. It has everything: Love, betrayal, jealousy, friendship, racism, politics, and sex..."Oh-My!!" The idea of the book is that the Wicked Witch of the West was not really "wicked", just misunderstood. She tries to live a quiet life with herself and never has that opportunity. I found myself grudgingly rooting for Witch, after all, she is just misunderstood, right?! Maybe?! The moral of the story is that there are two sides to every story, and if you look at things from another perspective, sometimes those we judge to be bad or evil, really are just people with different goals from our own.... OR maybe she just wanted the pretty shoes! I mean, what girl doesn't want pretty shoes!

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