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Zusatztext “The minute you open A Lion Among Men! you’re back in Maguire’s exquisitely detailed environment! caught up once again in his geography! his characters! his worldview! touched anew by the loneliness that lurks in the heart of all things.” Informationen zum Autor Gregory Maguire is the New York Times bestselling author of Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister ; Lost ; Mirror Mirror ; and the Wicked Years! a series that includes Wicked ! Son of a Witch ! A Lion Among Men ! and Out of Oz . Now a beloved classic! Wicked is the basis for a blockbuster Tony Award–winning Broadway musical. Maguire has lectured on art! literature! and culture both at home and abroad. He lives with his family near Boston! Massachusetts. Klappentext In the third volume of Gregory Maguire’s acclaimed series! the Wicked Years! we return to Oz! seen now through the eyes of the Cowardly Lion. While civil war looms in Oz! Brrr—the Cowardly Lion—surrenders the story of his life to a tetchy oracle named Yackle. Abandoned as a cub! Brrr’s path from infancy in the Great Gillikan Forest is no Yellow Brick Road. Seeking to redress an early mistake! he trudges through a swamp of ghosts! becomes implicated in a massacre of trolls! falls in love with a forbidding Cat princess! and avoids a jail sentence by agreeing to serve as a lackey to the war-mongering Emperor of Oz. A portrait of a would-be survivor and a panoramic glimpse of a world gone shrill with war fever! Gregory Maguire’s A Lion Among Men is written with the sympathy and power that have made his books contemporary classics. Zusammenfassung Return to a darker Oz with Gregory Maguire. In A Lion Among Men ! the third volume in Maguire’s acclaimed! New York Times bestselling series The Wicked Years! a fuller! more complex Cowardly Lion is brought to life and gets to tell his remarkable tale. It is a story of oppression and fear in a world gone mad with war fever—of Munchkins! Wizards! and Wicked Witches—and especially of a gentle soul and determined survivor who is truly A Lion Among Men . ...
