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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100061719781
ISBN-139780061719783
eBay Product ID (ePID)69569491
Product Key Features
Book TitleSon of a Witch : Volume Two in the Wicked Years
Number of Pages560 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2009
TopicFantasy / General, Fantasy / Contemporary, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Action & Adventure
FeaturesLarge Type
GenreFiction
AuthorGregory Maguire
Book SeriesWicked Years Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight20.3 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition22
ReviewsA tale that adroitly mixes drama, humor, and political satire into a well-knit examination of good and evil., "Maguire is full of storytelling brio . . . his Oz is meticulously drawn." -- New York Times "A tale that adroitly mixes drama, humor, and political satire into a well-knit examination of good and evil." -- Library Journal "Maguire has done it again: Son of a Witch is as wicked as they come. . . . Thoroughly entertaining." -- Boston Globe "Maguire's captivating, fully imagined world of horror and wonder illuminates the links between good and evil, retribution and forgiveness." -- People "As fantastical as a novel set in Oz should be." -- Entertainment Weekly 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 "An amazing novel." -- --John Updike "Save a place on the shelf between Alice and The Hobbit--that spot is well deserved." -- --Kirkus Reviews, Maguire's captivating, fully imagined world of horror and wonder illuminates the links between good and evil, retribution and forgiveness., For Wicked:"I fell quickly and totally under the spell of this remarkable, wry, and fully realized story.", Maguire has done it again: Son of a Witch is as wicked as they come. . . . Thoroughly entertaining.
Series Volume Number2
Dewey Decimal813/.54
Edition DescriptionLarge Type / large print edition
SynopsisThe Wicked Years continue in Gregory Maguire s Son of a Witch the heroic saga of the hapless yet determined young man who may or may not be the offspring of the fabled Wicked Witch of the West. A New York Times bestseller like its predecessor, the remarkable Wicked, Son of a Witch follows the boy Liir on his dark odyssey across an ingeniously re-imagined and nearly unrecognizable Land of Oz a journey that will take him deep into the bowels of the Emerald City, lately abandoned by the Wizard, and into the jaws of dragons. At once a grim fairy tale and an uplifting adventure, Son of a Witch is a true wonder. ", The Wicked Years continue in Gregory Maguire'sSon of a Witch -the heroic saga of the hapless yet determined young man who may or may not be the offspring of the fabled Wicked Witch of the West. A New York Times bestseller like its predecessor, the remarkable Wicked, Son of a Witch follows the boy Liir on his dark odyssey across an ingeniously re-imagined and nearly unrecognizable Land of Oz-a journey that will take him deep into the bowels of the EmeraldCity, lately abandoned by the Wizard, and into the jaws of dragons. At once a grim fairy tale and an uplifting adventure,Son of a Witch is a true wonder., The Wicked Years continue in Gregory Maguire's Son of a Witch --the heroic saga of the hapless yet determined young man who may or may not be the offspring of the fabled Wicked Witch of the West. A New York Times bestseller like its predecessor, the remarkable Wicked, Son of a Witch follows the boy Liir on his dark odyssey across an ingeniously re-imagined and nearly unrecognizable Land of Oz--a journey that will take him deep into the bowels of the Emerald City, lately abandoned by the Wizard, and into the jaws of dragons. At once a grim fairy tale and an uplifting adventure, Son of a Witch is a true wonder., The Wicked Years continue in Gregory Maguire'sSon of a Witch --the heroic saga of the hapless yet determined young man who may or may not be the offspring of the fabled Wicked Witch of the West. A New York Times bestseller like its predecessor, the remarkable Wicked, Son of a Witch follows the boy Liir on his dark odyssey across an ingeniously re-imagined and nearly unrecognizable Land of Oz--a journey that will take him deep into the bowels of the EmeraldCity, lately abandoned by the Wizard, and into the jaws of dragons. At once a grim fairy tale and an uplifting adventure,Son of a Witch is a true wonder.