Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.97 (711 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000CCUVYQ |
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| Number of Pages | : | 361 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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There are always 2 sides to every story. Wicked does a lot more than just tell The Wizard of Oz from the Witch's point of view (which is probably a good thing, since that book would have read something along the lines of "Chapter 20: More Exciting Times With Those Creepy Flying Monkeys"). Wicked actually flips Oz on its head and, in a lot of places, departs entirely from Baum's novel and the 1939 movie. In Wicked, the Witch is misunderstood, the Witch of the East is a religious zealot, Munchkins are prone to mob violence and bigotry, the Wizard is a dictator, and animals can talk.For the Wizard of. "Marvelously written, funny, too clever by half." according to T. Hyrkas. Among the best books I have ever read. A discussion of good and evil in an alternate but not completely unfamiliar universe, the story is complex, many-layered and very funny. It touches on both the value and the absurdity of families, communities, and politics. The conversation at the dinner table in Elphaba's former school of Shiz after the "murder" of Madame Morrible is worth the attention of those interested in philosophy and theology. Gregory Maguire's writing is superb throughout. I will read it many times, I think, just for this kind of fun :"Were yo. Amanda Merrill said Complex Material with Disappointing Development. i finished it. mostly because i kept hoping for some character development or resolution even though i began to doubt that the material was ever going to wake up from the murky green-glass lethargy that settled on everyone's spirit from the very beginning. Elphaba almost broke free. But then when heartbreak threw her back into a haze so deep she didn't know her own body - we never quite saw that rich fighter spirit again. her character was squashed to blend in with her flat surroundings - with any fight or transition occurring completely off-stage where the
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.
Dorothy appears only near novel's end, as her house crash-lands on Elphaba's sister, the Wicked Witch of the East, in an accident that sets Elphaba on the trail of the girl from Kansas?as well as the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodsman and the Lion?and her fabulous new shoes. Frank Baum's Wonderful Wizard of Oz as a springboard to create a tense realm inhabited by humans, talking animals (a rhino librarian, a goat physician), Munchkinlanders, dwarves and various tribes. The Wizard of Oz, emperor of this dystopian dictatorship, promotes Industrial Modern architecture and restricts animals' right to freedom of travel; his holy book is an ancient manuscript of magic that was clairvoyantly located by Madam Blavatsky 40 years earlier. Maguire's strange and imaginative postmodernist fable uses L. Much of the narrativ