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By (author) Maguire Gregory
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The complete Wicked Years quartet, a
vailable for the first time in a collectable four-book boxset edition – featuring stunning ”vintage” cover artwork and in a bespoke slipcase
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”An astonishing achievement”
PHILIP PULLMAN
The complete Wicked Years quartet, including the bestselling classic novel which inspired the major motion picture and global musical phenomenon Wicked
Available for the first time in a collectable four-book boxset edition – featuring stunning ”vintage” cover artwork and in a bespoke slipcase
In this classic tale of good and evil, what if we weren”t told the whole story?
Long before Dorothy follows the yellow brick road and triumphs over the Wicked Witch of the West, a little girl with emerald-green skin is born in the land of Oz.
The iconic series begins with
WICKED, and continues in
SON OF A WITCH, A LION AMONG MEN and
OUT OF OZ.
Fall under the WICKED spell this year . . .
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Praise for the Wicked Years quartet:
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Maguire did something truly remarkable with this novel . . . it”s an astonishing achievement
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Hilarious, heart-wrenching and extremely poignant
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Moving and tragic as it is refreshing . . . outstanding
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An outstanding work of imagination
Biographical note:
Gregory Maguire is a bestselling author who has earned rave reviews and a dedicated following for Wicked, the first novel in the Wicked Years quartet (which also included Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men and Out of Oz), that was made into an award-winning musical. 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 Blue Mountain Center, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the Hambridge Center. Gregory has lived in Dublin and London, but now makes his home near Boston, Massachusetts, with his partner, their two sons and daughter.
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