La suite de la célèbre comédie musicale, bientôt adaptée au cinéma avec Ariana Grande!
Au pays d'Oz, le jeune adolescent, Liir, a été vu pour la dernière fois dissimulé dans un recoin poussiéreux de Kiamo Ko, le fameux jour où Dorothy a éliminé la Sorcière. Quelques années plus tard, meurtri et plongé dans le coma, il est soigné au Cloître de Sainte-Glinda par une novice prénommée Candèle qui use de ses talents musicaux pour le faire voyager dans ses souvenirs. Quelle puissance ténébreuse a laissé Liir dans cet état? Est-il vraiment le fils d'Elphaba? Il a le balai et la cape de la Sorcière, certes, mais qu'en est-il de ses pouvoirs? Alors que le pays d'Oz, après le départ du Magicien, traverse une période d'instabilité politique ouvrant la voie à toutes sortes d'ambitions, Liir parviendra-t-il à survivre assez longtemps pour devenir adulte?
Dans Le Magicien d'Oz, Dorothy triomphe de la Méchante Sorcière de l'Ouest. Mais nous n'avions que cette version de l'histoire...
Qui est vraiment cette mystérieuse sorcière ? Est-elle donc si méchante ? Comment a-t-elle hérité de cette terrible réputation ?
Et si c'était elle, la véritable héroïne du monde d'Oz ?
Ouvrez ce livre et vous découvrirez enfin la merveilleuse et terrible vérité. Quels que soient vos souvenirs de ce chef-d'oeuvre qu'est Le Magicien d'Oz, vous serez passionné et touché par le destin incroyable de cette femme au courage exceptionnel.
Entrez dans un monde fantastique si riche et si vivant que vous ne verrez plus jamais les contes de la même manière...
"Maguire's work is melodic, symphonic, and beautiful; it is dejected and biting and brave. How great that people flock to these magical novels." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review Bestselling author Gregory Maguire's remarkable series, The Wicked Years, comes full circle with this, his fourth and final excursion across a darker, richer, more complex landscape of "the magical land of Oz." Out of Oz brilliantly reimagines L. Frank Baum's world over the rainbow as wracked with social unrest--placing Glinda the good witch under house arrest and having the cowardly Lion on the lam from the law as the Emerald City prepares to make war on Munchkinland. Even Dorothy makes a triumphant return in Maguire's magnificent Oz finale--tying up every loose green end of the series he began with his classic Wicked , the basis for the smash hit Broadway musical.
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.
Return to a darker Oz with Gregory Maguire. In A Lion Among Men , the third volume in Maguire''s acclaimed, New York Times bestselling series The Wicked Years, a fuller, more complex Cowardly Lion is brought to life and gets to tell his remarkable tale. It is a story of oppression and fear in a world gone mad with war fever--of Munchkins, Wizards, and Wicked Witches--and especially of a gentle soul and determined survivor who is truly A Lion Among Men.
From the bestselling author of WICKED... When Alice fell down the rabbit-hole, she found Wonderland as rife with inconsistent rules and abrasive egos as the world she left behind. But how did Victorian Oxford react to Alice's disappearance? Gregory Maguire turns his imagination to the question of underworlds, undergrounds, underpinnings -and understandings old and new, offering an inventive spin on Carroll's enduring tale. Ada, a friend mentioned briefly in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland , sets out to visit Alice but, arriving a moment too late, tumbles down the rabbit-hole herself. Ada brings to Wonderland her own imperfect apprehension of cause and effect as she embarks on an odyssey to find Alice and bring her safely home from this surreal world below the world. The White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat and the bloodthirsty Queen of Hearts interrupt their mad tea party to suggest a conundrum: if Eurydice can ever be returned to the arms of Orpheus, or if Lazarus can be raised from the tomb, perhaps Alice can be returned to life. Either way, everything that happens next is After Alice .
As civil war looms in Oz, Brrr, once a lion cub rescued by Elphaba, now a spy for the emperor, attempts to get vital information out of the dying oracle Yackle, only to learn important truths about his own mysterious past.
