It’s a book that has changed a lot of lives, including mine. “I knew that Gregory Maguire had come up with a genius idea the moment I heard about Wicked. 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!” - Holly Near I felt a quiet joy that sisterhood had made its way to the Yellow Brick Road. “Long before there was any thought of a musical, I read Wicked. It has the power to reshape one’s view of the world.” - Winnie Holzman, co-writer of Wicked: The Musical Although best remembered for the classic 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, L. It was radical when Gregory first wrote it, and remains radical. Maguire creates a Wicked Witch we can empathize with and relate to while providing commentary on the role religion, racial inequality and suppression play in fueling evil. “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. Wicked by Gregory Maguire is a wonderfully creepy, magical and sometimes disturbing book, perfect for your fall reading list. "Gregory gets the complications and uniqueness of women very well." - Kristen Chenoweth It’s an astonishing achievement." - Philip Pullman "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.
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