Thoroughly entertaining.-Boston Globe Maguire is full of storytelling brio. Review Quotes An amazing novel.-John Updike A tale that adroitly mixes drama, humor, and political satire into a well-knit examination of good and evil.-Library Journal As fantastical as a novel set in Oz should be.-Entertainment Weekly Maguire has done it again: Son of a Witch is as wicked as they come.

What dark force left Liir in this condition? Is he really Elphabas son? He has her broom and her cape-but what of her powers? Can he find his supposed half-sister, Nor, last seen in the forbidding prison, Southstairs? Can he fulfill the last wishes of a dying princess? In an Oz that, since the Wizards departure, is under new and dangerous management, can Liir keep his head down long enough to grow up? Discover the captivating tale that has taken fans of Wicked even deeper into the magical world of Oz. But he is tended to at the Cloister of Saint Glinda by the silent novice called Candle, who wills him back to life with her musical gifts. Bruised, comatose, and left for dead in a gully, Liir is shattered in spirit as well as in form. From the Back Cover Ten years after the publication of Wicked, beloved novelist Gregory Maguire returns to the land of Oz to introduce us to Liir, an adolescent boy last seen hiding in the shadows of the castle after Dorothy did in the Witch. At once a grim fairy tale and an uplifting adventure, Son of a Witch is a true wonder. 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. Book Synopsis The Wicked Years continue in Gregory Maguires 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.

About the Book In this follow-up to Wicked-the basis for the Tony Award-winning musical-beloved novelist Maguire returns at last to the land of Oz and introduces readers to Liir, the small boy Elphaba leaves behind at her untimely death.

Son of a witch by gregory maguire