![]() ![]() ![]() 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. The adaptation of the Tony-winning Broadway show which is based on the 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire will differ slightly from. Buy Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire at Online bookstore bookzoo.in I books shopping online I Books online. “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 It was radical when Gregory first wrote it, and remains radical. “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. "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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