{"product_id":"wicked-movie-tiein-2-the-life-and-times-of-the-wicked-witch-of-the-west-isbn-9780063471740","title":"Wicked [Movie tie-in #2]: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller and basis for the international phenomenon that is \u003ci\u003eWicked\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003ci\u003eThe Musical \u003c\/i\u003eand the smash hit movie series. Look for part one of \u003ci\u003eWicked \u003c\/i\u003ethe movie, now streaming, and the stunning conclusion \u003ci\u003eWicked: For Good\u003c\/i\u003e, in theaters now.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith millions of copies in print around the world, Gregory Maguire’s \u003ci\u003eWicked\u003c\/i\u003e is established not only as a commentary on our time but as a novel to revisit for years to come. \u003ci\u003eWicked\u003c\/i\u003e relishes the inspired inventions of L. Frank Baum’s 1900 novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz\u003c\/i\u003e, while playing sleight of hand with our collective memories of the 1939 MGM film. In this fast-paced, fantastically real, and supremely entertaining novel, Maguire has populated the largely unknown world of Oz with the power of his own imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYears before Dorothy and her dog crash-land, another little girl makes her presence known in Oz. This girl, Elphaba, is born with emerald-green skin—no easy burden in a land as mean and poor as Oz, where superstition and magic are not strong enough to explain or overcome the natural disasters of flood and famine. Still, Elphaba is smart, and by the time she enters Shiz University, she becomes a member of a charmed circle of Oz’s most promising young citizens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Elphaba’s Oz is no utopia. The Wizard’s secret police are everywhere. Animals—those creatures with voices, souls, and minds—are threatened with exile. Young Elphaba, green and wild and misunderstood, is determined to protect the Animals—even if it means combating the mysterious Wizard, even if it means risking her single chance at romance. Ever wiser in guilt and sorrow, she can find herself grateful when the world declares her a witch. And she can even make herself glad for that young girl from Kansas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecognized as an iconoclastic tour de force on its initial publication, the novel has inspired the blockbuster musical of the same name—one of the longest-running plays in Broadway history. Popular, indeed. But while the novel’s distant cousins hail from the traditions of magical realism, mythopoeic fantasy, and sprawling nineteenth-century sagas of moral urgency, Maguire’s Wicked is as unique as its green-skinned witch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Maguire did something truly remarkable with this novel, in managing to inhabit, enlarge, deepen and find new dimensions in a world that had been invented by another writer, and in doing so make something entirely new. It’s an astonishing achievement.\" –Phillip Pullman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Gregory gets the complications and uniqueness of women very well.\"-- Kristen Chenoweth\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"It's a staggering feat of wordcraft, made no less so by the fact that its boundaries were set decades ago by somebody else. Maguire's larger triumph here is twofold: First, in Elphaba, he has created (re-created? renovated?) one of the great heroines in fantasy literature: a fiery, passionate, unforgettable and ultimately tragic figure. Second, Wicked is the best fantasy novel of ideas I've read since Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast or Frank Herbert's Dune. Would that all books with this much innate consumer appeal were also this good. And vice versa.\" –Los Angeles Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\"An outstanding work of imagination.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I knew that Gregory Maguire had come up with a genius idea the moment I heard about \u003cem\u003eWicked\u003c\/em\u003e. It’s a book that has changed a lot of lives, including mine.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephen Schwartz, composer and lyricist of Wicked: The Musical\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Gregory gets the complications and uniqueness of women very well.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKristen Chenoweth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Maguire did something truly remarkable with this novel, in managing to inhabit, enlarge, deepen and find new dimensions in a world that had been invented by another writer, and in doing so make something entirely new. It’s an astonishing achievement.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhilip Pullman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“At the heart of this remarkable, unforgettable novel is a wildly original premise—one that only a writer with Gregory Maguire’s intellect and daring could have dreamed up: that the Wicked Witch of the West was a real woman, with an actual name, and her own story to tell. It was radical when Gregory first wrote it, and remains radical. It has the power to reshape one’s view of the world.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWinnie Holzman, co-writer of Wicked: The Musical\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Long before there was any thought of a musical, I read Wicked. I felt a quiet joy that sisterhood had made its way to the Yellow Brick Road. What happens when a witch, green or otherwise, gets to tell her own story instead of being vilified and misrepresented by dominant cultural authority? We witches know how that turns out!” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHolly Near\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Listen up, Munchkins. Stop your singing, stop the dancing. The Wicked Witch is no longer dead. But not to worry. Gregory Maguire’s shrewdly imagined and beautifully written first novel, \u003cem\u003eWicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West\u003c\/em\u003e, not only revives her but re-envisions and redeems her for our times.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Morrow Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48588084084965,"sku":"NP9780063471740","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780063471740.jpg?v=1773961973","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/wicked-movie-tiein-2-the-life-and-times-of-the-wicked-witch-of-the-west-isbn-9780063471740","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}