A New York Times Bestseller
“Maguire’s work is melodic, symphonic and beautiful; it is dejected and biting and brave…. In fabulous details and self-mocking language, Maguire displays his gift for whimsical portrayals of the broken, the powerless, the hopeless, the bad.”
—Los Angeles Times
“Hardly more than a kitten . . . I had thought to call it Prrr, but it shivers more often than it purrs, so I call it Brrr instead.”
—From Wicked
Since Wicked was first published in 1995, millions of readers have discovered Gregory Maguire’s fantastically encyclopedic Oz, a world filled with characters both familiar and new, darkly conceived and daringly re-imagined. In the much anticipated third volume of the Wicked Years, we return to Oz, seen now through the eyes of the Cowardly Lion—the once-tiny cub defended by Elphaba in Wicked.
While civil war looms in Oz, an oracle named Yackle prepares for death. Before her final hour, an enigmatic figure known as Brrr—the Cowardly Lion—arrives searching for information about Elphaba Thropp, the Wicked Witch of the West. As payment, Yackle demands some answers of her own, and so Brrr surrenders his story.
At once a portrait of a would-be survivor and a panoramic glimpse of a world gone shrill with war fever, Gregory Maguire’s new novel is written with the sympathy and power that have made his books contemporary classics.
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