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Amazon.com Review “Elphaba’s Heirs and Assigns” by Gregory Maguire Depending on how you count the years, I am about at my 25th anniversary of the original inspiration for Wicked . I was on a walk on a country road in Massachusetts, thinking myopically and somewhat self-regardingly about various offenses that I felt had been perpetrated against me. I was wondering about how apparently trustworthy people could turn dangerous, or if they really had been dangerous all along, merely well-disguised, even from themselves? A standard issue college dorm question, I suppose, but the matter seemed urgent to me that year. I moved from the slightly sore subject of my personal life into the realm of imagination to keep the question alive without it hurting so much, and almost immediately I thought of the Wicked Witch of the West--admittedly, more Margaret Hamilton than L. Frank Baum--and I wondered: Was she always terrible? The momentary crisis of that year, combined with attention to acts of evil and distress in our larger world a few years later, brought me into Oz and the world of Wicked . Still, even eight years later when Wicked was first published, I hadn't expected that the story w

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Author
Maguire, Gregory
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Published
2011
Language
EN
ISBN
9780060548940
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy
Rating
3.84 / 5 (14,409 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-13

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