Name: A Lion Among Men: Volume Three in the Wicked Years
SKU: 55994229
Price: 373.00 ZAR
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Author: Maguire, Gregory
ISBN: 9780063398382

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A Lion Among Men: Volume Three in the Wicked Years

Type

Physical Book

Author

Gregory Maguire

Publisher

William Morrow and Company

Language

English

Pages

336

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780063398382

Synopsis "A Lion Among Men: Volume Three in the Wicked Years"

New York Times BestsellerFocusing on the Cowardly Lion, the third in the Wicked Years series which started with Wicked, the multimillion-copy bestseller and basis for the Tony Award-winning hit musical, soon to be a major motion picture starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande.In A Lion Among Men Gregory Maguire continues to flesh out the world of Oz, seen this time through the eyes of the Cowardly Lion--remembered from Wicked as a tiny cub defended by Elphaba.While civil war looms in Oz, an ancient and tetchy oracle named Yackle prepares for death. Before she can return to dust, however, the Cowardly Lion--an enigmatic figure named Brrr--arrives in search of information about Elphaba Thropp, the Wicked Witch of the West. As payment, Yackle who hovered on the sidelines of Elphaba's life, demands some answers of her own.Abandoned as a cub, Brrr's earliest memories are only gluey hazes. But his path from infancy in the Great Gillikin Forest is no Yellow Brick Road. Seeking to redress an early mistake, he tumbles through a swamp of ghosts, becomes implicated in a massacre of trolls, and falls in love with a Cat princess. Sidestepping the laws that oppress talking Animals, Brrr cannily avoids a jail sentence by agreeing to serve as a lackey to the warmongering Emperor of Oz.A Lion Among Men traces a battle of wits between adversaries distracted by the armies approaching on either side of them. What does the Lion know of the whereabouts of the Witch's boy, Liir? What can Yackle reveal about the auguries of the Clock of the Time Dragon? Is destiny ever arbitrary? Can those tarnished by infamy escape their sobriquets--cowardly, wicked, brainless, criminally earnest--to claim their own histories, to live honorably within their own skins before they're skinned alive?

Gregory Maguire

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(New York, 1954) graduated in English and American Literature. Author of novels for adults and a dozen children's books, success came with Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. Many of this author's novels are revisions of classic children's stories.

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