While most people can recall the Yellow Brick Road or Munckhinland of MGM’s imagination, fewer have read L. Frank Baum’s series that introduced the magical world of Oz to generations of readers young and old. Now, Gregory Maguire has faithfully reconstructed and repopulated this world for a new generation of Oz fans, in a series that began with Wicked, which many recognize as the impetuous for the smash Broadway hit that has left legions of fans feeling Popular.
As this final installment begins, all is not well in the once peaceful, happy Oz: a civil war is in the offing as Emerald City is planning on invading Munchkinland, the ever lovely Glinda is being held under house arrest and the Cowardly Lion is on the lam. Where is Dorothy when you need her? Never fear, she’s once again growing impatient with Uncle Henry and Auntie Em and she’ll be back for this final tale, Toto too, as will the green granddaughter of Elphaba, now all grown and ready to come into her own wickedness, or will she be able to save Oz and restore it to its once shining self.
Compulsively readable, Out of Oz reunites everyone’s favorite characters from Maguie and Baum’s chronicles. The pages are brimming with rich detail of imagined lands. Maguire doesn’t stop until the very last page when ultimately everything is set to rights and the sun finally sets on this retelling of Oz.
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