Out of Oz: Volume Four in the Wicked Years Large Print Edition
by Gregory Maguire (9780062088680)

What's the latest news out of Oz? Trust Gregory Maguire, author of WICKED and its sequels, to let us know. In the fourth and final installment in THE WICKED YEARS sequence, the marvelous land of Oz is knotted with social unrest. The Emerald City is busy mounting an invasion of Munchkinland. Glinda is under house arrest. The Cowardly Lion is on the run from the law. A young girl descended from Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, takes up the broom for herself. And who shows up for a return visit but Dorothy. THAT Dorothy.

More than five million copies of WICKED and its sequels, SON OF A WITCH and A LION AMONG MEN, have prepared readers for the revelations and reversals, reprisals and surprises to be found in OUT OF OZ.

The stunning conclusion to the smash New York Times bestselling series the Wicked Years



Hailed as 'bewitching,' 'remarkable,' 'extraordinary,' 'engrossing,' 'amazing,' and 'delicious,' Gregory Maguire's Wicked Years series' a sophisticated fantasy cycle inspired by the classic children?s novel The Wizard of Oz?became national bestsellers and the basis for a hit Tony-winning Broadway musical. Now, Maguire returns with the final installment in his transformative work, a thrilling and compulsively readable saga in which the fate of Oz is decided at last. . . .

Once peaceful and prosperous, the spectacular Land of Oz is knotted with social unrest: The Emerald City is mounting an invasion of Munchkinland, Glinda is under house arrest, and the Cowardly Lion is on the run from the law. And look who's knocking at the door. It's none other than Dorothy. Yes. That Dorothy.

Yet amidst all this chaos, Elphaba's granddaughter, the tiny green baby born at the close of Son of a Witch, has come of age. Now it is up to Rain to take up her broom, and her legacy, in an Oz wracked by war.

The stirring, long-awaited conclusion to the bestselling series begun with Wicked, Out of Oz is a magical journey rife with revelations and reversals, reprisals and surprises, the hallmarks of the unique imagination of Gregory Maguire.

About the Author

Gregory Maguire is the author of six novels for adults and more than a dozen novels for children. His adult novels, all published by HarperCollins, are Wicked (1995), praised by John Updike in The New Yorker as "an amazing novel"; Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (1999); Lost (2001); Mirror Mirror (2003); Son of a Witch (2005); and A Lion..

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