Son of a Witch
Cover of Son of a Witch
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| Author | Gregory Maguire |
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| Illustrator | Douglas Smith |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | The Wicked Years |
| Genre | Parallel novel, Fantasy |
| Publisher | Regan Books |
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Publication date
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2005 |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | 352 pp |
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| OCLC | 60359529 |
| Preceded by | Wicked |
| Followed by | A Lion Among Men |
Son of a Witch (2005, ) is a fantasy novel written by Gregory Maguire. The book is Maguire’s fifth revisionist story and the second set in the land of Oz originally conceived by L. Frank Baum. It is a sequel to Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (1995). Like Wicked, Son of a Witch differs from the original series in tone: while Baum's books were intended as children's literature, Son of a Witch elaborates a darker and more mature side of the lighthearted world of Oz. In an interview that is included with the Son of a Witch audio CD, Gregory Maguire gave two reasons for writing the book: "the many letters from young fans asking what happened to Nor, last seen as a chained political prisoner, and seeing the Abu Ghraib torture photographs."Son of a Witch continues the story after the fall from power of the Wizard of Oz and the death of Elphaba, Maguire's reinvention of the Wicked Witch of the West. As its title implies, it follows the life of Elphaba’s possible son, Liir.
Son of a Witch is the second novel in The Wicked Years. It is dedicated to the musical cast of Wicked.
Oatsie Manglehand, a woman who leads the Grasstrail Train, discovers the body of a young man, badly bruised and near death, by the side of a road in the Vinkus. The Vinkus has lately become dangerous due to "scrapings", mysterious killings that involve the removal of the head's facial features, but this man's face has not been scraped. Oatsie brings the man to the Cloister of Saint Glinda in the Shale Shallows. The Superior Maunt recognizes the young man and identifies him as Liir, the young boy who left the Cloister with Elphaba a decade or so ago.
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