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Son of a Witch

av Gregory Maguire

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Serier: The Wicked Years (2)

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The sequel to Wicked returns to the land of Oz to tell the story of Liir, an adolescent boy last seen hiding in the shadows of the castle after Dorothy did in Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West. Bruised, comatose, and left for dead in a gully, Liir is shattered in spirit as well as in form. But he is tended at the Cloister of Saint Glinda by the silent novice called Candle, who wills him back to life with her musical gifts. What dark force left Liir in this condition? Is he really Elphaba's 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 Wizard's departure, is under new and dangerous management, can Liir keep his head down long enough to grow up?… (mer)
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Adult Content Advisory that Wicked sent up the flagpole continues to wave and flap. This book explores some mature themes in political and private life with sometimes disturbing imagery, coarse language, and a relentless realism that casts an ominous shadow across the innocent, optimistic world of Oz. Also, there’s the sex, sex, more sex, some of it of the troubling boy-on-boy persuasion.
  MamaBearLendingDen | Nov 26, 2023 |
Ugh! I love Wicked, but this book is so disjointed, and I'm bored. I'm just trudging through at this point, so that I can get to the next book in the series. ( )
  DominiqueMarie | Oct 22, 2023 |
Liir tiene catorce años y un montón de preguntas. Siempre ha estado con Elphaba, la bruja de piel verde, pero no sabe si ella es su verdadera madre. Cuando ésta muerte, Liir emprende un viaje para descubrir su identidad y su lugar en el mundo. Unos días más tarde se despierta malherido y asustado en un monasterio junto a Candle, una misteriosa joven novicia muda, Liir pronto descubrirá que sus problemas n han hecho más que empezar.
  Natt90 | Feb 14, 2023 |
Synopsis: 'Bruised, comatose, and left for dead in a gully, Liir is shattered in spirit as well as in form. 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. What dark force left Liir in this condition? Is he really Elphaba's 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 a Oz that, since the Wizard's departure, is under new and dangerous management, can Liir keep his head down long enough to grow up?'
Review: If you can hang on until the middle of the book, this becomes an okay story. I found much of it tedious and the main character inept. The ending made me think of the retort, 'another male behaving badly.' ( )
  DrLed | Jun 8, 2021 |
Liir tries to figure out if he is the son of the wicked witch or not and to figure out the meaning of his life. The book starts with him in a coma and keeps flashing back to his earlier life. He lives in the land of Oz which is filled with corruption showing the dark side of human nature. Characters from the original Oz book play a part in his life including Glenda who is not completely a good witch and the Scarecrow. ( )
  kshydog | Dec 13, 2020 |
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''Son of a Witch" is vintage Maguire, thoroughly entertaining even at its darkest. Oz is as complex and satisfying a fantastic world as ever, wonderfully described, from the steam rising out of the marshes to the sloe-eyed young homeless on the Emerald City streets.
tillagd av stephmo | ändraBoston Globe, Sarah Smith (Jul 19, 2009)
 
Enchanted elephants and dragon death squads — Maguire's sequel to his 1995 best-seller, Wicked, is as fantastical as a novel set in Oz should be.
 
As a result the story - which is meant to contain great love and great tragedy as well as great invention - tends to slip awkwardly between registers. Maguire may have successfully done away with Dorothy, but he hasn't quite got control of his broomstick yet.
 
Like the character Liir at its center ("a solitary figure untroubled by ambition, unfettered by talent, uncertain of a damn thing"), the novel suffers from entropy. It wanders around, off-kilter and aimless: "A year passed, another. Nothing was the same, year after year, but little was different, either."
 

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I have no fear that the poetry of democratic peoples will be found timid or that it will stick too close to the earth. I am much more afraid that it...may finish up by describing an entirely fictitious country.

-- Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835, 1840
All cows were like all other cows, all tigers like all other tigers -- what on earth has happened to human beings?

-- Harry Mulisch, Siegfried, 2001
A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true spirit, restore their government to its true principles.

-- Thomas Jefferson, 1798
My mother was a westerne woman and learned in gramarye

-- K. Estmere, 1470, collected in Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, 1765
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L. Frank Baum's second Oz novel, The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904), was dedicated to the actors David C. Montgomery and Fred A. Stone, who performed the roles of the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow in the first theatrical version of The Wizard of Oz.

In that spirit, Son of a Witch is dedicated to the cast and creative team of the musical Wicked, which opened on Broadway in October 2003 -- the night before Halloween.


To Winnie Holzman and Stephen Schwartz, foremost and first, for their vision; to Wayne Cilento, Susan Hilferty, Eugene Lee, Joe Mantello, Stephen Oremus, Kenneth Posner, and Marc Platt and his associates, for bringing visions to life; and, among all the capable cast, most expecially to Kristen Chenoweth (Galinda/ Glinda), Joel Grey (The Wizard), and Idina Menzel (Elphaba), for bringing life to visions.
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"Any murder at all, of any sort, is a murder of hope, too."
There is no resolving a good mess, he thought. Every breath one takes is a waking up into disjointedness, over and over.
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The sequel to Wicked returns to the land of Oz to tell the story of Liir, an adolescent boy last seen hiding in the shadows of the castle after Dorothy did in Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West. Bruised, comatose, and left for dead in a gully, Liir is shattered in spirit as well as in form. But he is tended at the Cloister of Saint Glinda by the silent novice called Candle, who wills him back to life with her musical gifts. What dark force left Liir in this condition? Is he really Elphaba's 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 Wizard's departure, is under new and dangerous management, can Liir keep his head down long enough to grow up?

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