Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
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Book Description
Born with green skin and huge teeth, like a dragon, the free-spirited Elphaba grows up to be an anti-totalitarian agitator, an animal-rights activist, a nun, then a nurse who tends the dying?and, ultimately, the headstrong Wicked Witch of the West in the land of Oz. Maguire's strange and imaginative postmodernist fable uses L. Frank Baum's Wonderful Wizard of Oz as a springboard to create a tense ... More
Book Information
Publisher | Regan Books |
Binding | Hardcover (74 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized |
# of Pages | 409 |
ISBN-10 | 0739468979 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0739468975 |
Publication Date | /2005 |
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1/29/2010 Alison Getchell said: Slow beginning, but once it gets rolling around Part II its hard to put it down. Intersting insight into the world of Oz (pre- and post-movie) and the characters we thought we knew. Nothing is ever really as it seems.
tags: I recommend
tags: I recommend
4/25/2009 Aletia Morstad said: a beautifully descriptive telling of just how the wicked witch of the west became so wicked (SHES NOT WICKED!!!!!!!!!!! SHE'S SIMPLY VERY MISUNDERSTOOD T-T)
tags: Inspired me
tags: Inspired me
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