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Book Spotlight: Out of Oz by Gregory Maguire & Giveaway (US Only)

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Today is the release date for the final volume in the Wicked Years: Out of Oz by Gregory Maguire!  I’ve read the first few in the series but have the last couple to catch up on.  I was quite taken with the series when it started but somehow I didn’t get back to it.  That is going to have to be remedied I think!  Today I’m going to share a bit about the book with you and be sure to check out the giveaway at the end of the post as well!

 

About Out of Oz by Gregory Maguire (from HarperCollins)

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.

Buy Out of Oz at aAmzon.com or Amazon.ca

 

Check out the Book Trailer…

 

About Gregory Maguire (from HarperCollins)

 

Photo by Andy Newman

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 Among Men (2008).

Wicked was developed as a big-budget Broadway musical, with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, Pippin, The Prince of Egypt, etc.), book by Winnie Holzman (My So-Called Life, etc.), and direction by Joe Mantello (Tony Award–winning director for Take Me Out). The original cast recording, released in December 2003, features performances by Kristin Chenoweth, Joel Grey, and Idina Menzel.

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister was filmed for ABC/Disney and aired originally in the spring of 2002. It starred Stockard Channing and Jonathan Pryce.

Maguire’s work for adults and for children has been published abroad in England, Ireland, and Australia, and various works..

Visit Gregory Maguire’s website
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GIVEAWAY DETAILS

I have one copy of Out of Oz by Gregory Maguire up for giveaway to US residents only.  To enter…

  • For 1 entry leave me a comment entering the giveaway.
  • For 2 entries, follow my blog.  If you already do, thank you, and please let me know in your comment so I can pass the extra entry on to you as well.
  • For 3 entries, blog or tweet this giveaway and spread the word.

This giveaway is open to US residents only (no PO boxes) and I will draw for the winner on Saturday, November 19/11.  Good luck everyone!

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Thanks for the giveaway. I really enjoyed this series so far.

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  11. Unfortunately, I stopped following this series after the second or third book. It just wasn’t doing it for me anymore, and I thought Maguire stretched too far above his reach with these. I do wish good luck to those who enter the giveaway though!

  14. I’ve enjoyed this series so I would love to read this! Thanks for the giveaway!
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  26. The new one sounds wickedly great (sorry, couldn’t resist!).

    Darlene, thank you for hosting this great giveaway. I posted it in my blog’s sidebar.

    (P.S. Your new blog design is wonderful.)

  37. Sweet! Very excited about the culmination of the “Wicked Years” series. Thanks for the giveaway. I follow your blog via my Google (gmail) account.

    Happy reading!