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	Powell's Books - Son of a Witch: A Novel by Gregory Maguire
		Son of a Witch is a pitch-perfect sequel to Wicked — as though Maguire hadn't written several other books in dramatically varied voices in the meantime.
		Son of a Witch is Maguire's most accomplished and nuanced work in years.
		When a Witch dies — not as a crone, withered and incapable, but as a woman in her prime, at the height of her passion and prowess — too much is left unsaid.
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	Son of a Witch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Son of a Witch is a sequel to Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, and the fifth revisionist novel written by Gregory Maguire.
		In an interview that is included with the Son of a Witch audio CD, Gregory Maguire gave two reasons for writing the book: the volume of letters he received from young readers asking what happened next, and the viewing of the Abu Ghraib torture photographs which were reminiscent of Nor's imprisonment.
		A decade after the Witch has melted away, the young man Liir is discovered bruised, comatose, and left for dead in a gully.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Son_of_a_Witch (1673 words)

	Son of a Witch: A Novel by Gregory Maguire
		Son of a Witch: A Novel by Gregory Maguire
		When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story.
		Maguire reveals that writing fantasy, for him, is a process of exploration, and that there are nuances to writing for adults that are different than for children.
	www.harpercollins.com /books/9780060548933/Son_of_a_Witch/index.aspx (771 words)

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	Christianity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The earliest specifically non-Trinitarian belief claiming descent from Jesus' teachings was Gnosticism, whose adherents generally held that the God of the Old Testament was a lower, evil god, while Jesus was an emissary from the higher good god.
		The phrase "and the son" (presented in brackets below) did not appear in the original creed and is not accepted by the Eastern Orthodox Church, and is commonly referred to as the Filioque clause.
		Witch hunts, carried out by secular authorities or popular mobs, were a frequent phenomenon in parts of early modern Europe and, to a lesser degree, North America.
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	The Alamo Store: Son of a Witch: A Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		"Son of a witch" has the exact tone and feeling as "Wicked" the book, so if you didn't care for the tone of "Wicked"-you are really not going to like "Son of a witch".
		There are quite a few characters that show up in "Son of a witch" and had appeared in "Wicked" the book only and not the musical.
		I have to say that I kind of missed Elphaba and I think that her character was what made "Wicked" good book that it is. "Son of a witch" just doesn't seem to have the same magic and at times I got a little bored.
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	Gregory Maguire, Son of a Witch
		Gregory Maguire, Son of a Witch (Harper Collins.
		Son of a Witch follows through with a more natural storyline, and is less frustrating to read.
		One wonders whether Maguire, too, was imagining a musical staging of his sequel, when he ascribed such a central role in his book to a certain musical instrument: in one scene a chorus of barnyard animals sings to its accompaniment, in another it accompanies a morbid chorus of skinned faces.
	www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_maguire_sonofawitchhtml.html (882 words)

	Gregory Maguire interview - Movie Discussion Forum & Message Board
		The interesting thing about Son of a Witch is that I wrote it ten years after Wicked and that the plot takes place (largely) ten years after Wicked.
		The "itch" for Son of a Witch was twofold: one was the photos of the U.S. soldiers "interrogating" prisoners of war at Abu Ghraib.
		Son of a Witch peers at the other side of the coin: the need for collaboration in order to achieve political change.
	www.cinemablend.com /forum/showthread.php?t=21598 (1462 words)

	Bookreporter.com - SON OF A WITCH by Gregory Maguire
		Bookreporter.com - SON OF A WITCH by Gregory Maguire
		Although she never asked why the boy was to accompany her, the rumor spread that Liir was the Witch's son.
		SON OF A WITCH provides a whimsical forum for Maguire to espouse his political views.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews2/0060548932.asp (566 words)

	Season of the witch - The Boston Globe
		This month, Maguire returns to the Emerald City with ‘‘Son of a Witch,’’ a novel that looks at the fate of the witch’s possible scion.
		But Maguire, who reads from ‘‘Son of a Witch’’ in Boston on Saturday, explains that long before ‘‘Wicked’’ was published, he was already working on its sequel.
		Without giving away the plot, ‘‘Son of a Witch,’’ offers several possible openings for a third installment of the story.
	www.boston.com /ae/events/articles/2005/10/12/season_of_the_witch (505 words)

	Wicked Sequel: Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire
		In SON OF A WITCH (Regan Books; September 27, 2005; $26.95), Maguire follows the story of Liir, the adolescent boy left hiding in the shadows of the castle when Dorothy tragically did in the Witch.
		Under her reign as a sort of temporary prime minister, much that had gone wrong, at least in the prior atmosphere of Wizardly secrecy was corrected.
		I am thrilled for Gregory's success with SON OF A WITCH, and I am extremely appreciative of his having dedicated the book to me and my collaborators on the musical version of WICKED, but I have absolutely no plans to make a musical out of the new book.
	www.musicalschwartz.com /wicked-sequel-maguire.htm (1702 words)

	Amazon.com: Son of a Witch: A Novel: Books: Gregory Maguire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Son is a tighter work than Wicked, making deft use of flashbacks and varying viewpoints to create a quicker pace.
		Son of a Witch: A Novel by Gregory Maguire
		Liir, the son of Elphaba Thropp, struggles with her demise and finding his place in the world in Gregory Maguire's "Son of a Witch." Confused about his parentage and seeking his niche, Liir strikes out on a series of adventures that bring him closer to finding his own path.
	www.amazon.com /Son-Witch-Novel-Gregory-Maguire/dp/0060548932 (2173 words)

	Review of SON OF A WITCH by Gregory Maguire
		Author Gregory Maguire (see more BooksForABuck.com reviews of novels by Maguire) re-imagines the Oz follow-on by wondering whether the wicked witch really was so bad, and positing that maybe she was simply an opposition leader, fighting against the usurping wizard and the hegemonistic control by Oz City of the rest of the land.
		In SON OF A WITCH, Liir might or might not be the son of the melted witch Elphaba.
		I love the idea of the wicked witch being a resistance leader and SON OF A WITCH is filled with high impact images and concepts.
	www.booksforabuck.com /sfpages/sf_06/son_witch.html (515 words)

	'Son of a Witch'
		"Son of a Witch" takes such disenchantment to new heights by asking us to care about a question of lineage that is answered by the book's title.
		But "Son of a Witch" relegates familiar characters to cameo appearances, focusing instead on Liir, who suffers from the imitative fallacy: His internal lack of direction is expressed in a meandering plot.
		Just as the witch on the book's dust jacket is meant to obscure the faults of this sequel behind the dry-ice fog of the original, one gets the distinct sense that Liir himself is also a front.
	www.austin360.com /books/content/events/special/books/13maguire.html (1050 words)

	Son of a Witch
		The lady is a practicing witch, who raised her boy away from the outside world in the midst of wacky wizard uncles and witch aunts.
		On the verge of getting forty years old, deeply annoyed by his mother’s strict upbringing, Larry is finally tired of it, and decides to go for a normal life in the non magical, grown-ups world.
		Son of a Witch is a partly sweet and partly hilarious film, and an unusual take at the coming-off-age genre.
	home.student.uva.nl /ferdi.verweij/meadow_pictures/son_of_a_witch/synopsis.htm (241 words)

	USATODAY.com - 'Wicked' author stirs up a witchy new sequel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Maguire's Son of a Witch (Regan Books, $26.95) is No. 14 on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list, just two weeks after being published.
		Son of a Witch features Liir, who as a boy in Wicked witnessed the visitor Dorothy do in the witch Elphaba, who may or may not have been his mother.
		But to call Son of a Witch a sequel "might unfairly raise expectations that the main character of Wicked made another appearance here," he says.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/news/2005-10-12-son-of-a-witch_x.htm (650 words)

	Ryan Arrowsmith » Journal Archive » Son of a Witch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Dorothy has made her appearance, destroyed the Witch and is headed back to the Emerald City to deliver the Witch’s broom to the Wizard in the hopes of returning home to Kansas.
		Son of a Witch deals with sex and politics in a manner that’s true to life; you won’t find any sugar coating here.
		You've just finished reading Son of a Witch, which was posted under Books on January 18th, 2006.
	www.ryanarrowsmith.com /2006/01/18/son-of-a-witch (900 words)

	Son of a Witch Book by Gregory Maguire at Total-Women.co.uk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Son of a Witch Book by Gregory Maguire - More Info...
		My older brother had just informed me that my dad would be giving me the “sex talk.” Apparently, he had just gotten his talk earlier in the evening, and my dad was “making the rounds....
		The 'Son of a Witch Book by Gregory Maguire' and all other items from Amazon.co.uk, are offered on the understanding that prices and availability may change at any time and are subject to Amazon.co.uk's Conditions of use and sale.
	www.total-women.co.uk /Amazon_Pages/_Son+of+a+Witch_0060548932_z.asp (322 words)

	'Son of a Witch': No Place Like Oz - New York Times
		Having recreated the witch as a misunderstood feminist, a kind of pistachio-colored Kate Millett, Maguire's new novel focuses on the child who may (or may not) have been her son.
		When obliged to admit Dorothy to the action, "Son of a Witch" grows awkward and embarrassed, like a teenager humiliated by the existence of his parents.
		"Son of a Witch" opens with an adolescent Liir lying in a coma.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/10/09/books/review/09harrison.html?ex=1286510400&en=234bf184dff16005&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (854 words)

	Son Of A Witch \| The A.V. Club
		Though much of that fandom likely won't recognize his hook: the question of whether Liir, a boy in the Witch's care in Maguire's earlier novel, was actually her son.
		And while she casts a long shadow over Son Of A Witch, it's wholly Liir's tale—a cynical, bitter story that's even more difficult to imagine as a Broadway musical than Wicked was.
		By comparison with Maguire's debut novel Wicked, Son Of A Witch is less a dense, revelatory history, and more of an episodic, almost Candide-like fable.
	www.avclub.com /content/node/41127/print (447 words)

	Liz Montgomery - And the Son of a Witch
		Liz Montgomery - And the Son of a Witch
		When she opened her eyes and saw little William Allen Asher for the first time, her first words were, "He's darling, but when can I have another?" Her doctor suggested she wait until she got out of the delivery room before starting another such project, and that's about as long as Liz Montgomery did wait.
		Samantha, of course, could have produced a girl simply by wrinkling her nose, but this time she has to go along with Liz.
	www.bobsbewitchingdaughter.com /SonOfAWitch.html (199 words)

	BookPage Fiction Review: Son of a Witch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Ten years after the publication of Gregory Maguire's first adult novel, Wicked—a wildly successful account of the Wicked Witch of the West that served as the basis for a Tony Award-winning Broadway musical—the long-awaited sequel is finally here.
		Son of a Witch stars Liir, the mysterious adolescent boy who saw Dorothy kill the infamous Wicked Witch of the West, Elphaba Thropp.
		As the novel begins, Liir (who may or may not be Elphaba's son) is found near death.
	www.bookpage.com /0510bp/fiction/son_of_a_witch.html (208 words)

	Maguire 2005 Products (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
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	Eye Weekly - Bad sequel's a real son of a witch - 10.26.00
		The way he further fudges the line between fact and fiction by having the characters in Book of Shadows speak knowingly of The Blair Witch Project as just a movie (albeit a "cool" one) yet still believe in its legends, is initially very compelling.
		Jeffrey Donovan, a recent inhabitant of the local psycho ward, is conducting the inaugural Blair Witch Hunt near Burkittsville for a Goth chick, Kim Director, a sexy Wiccan named Erica Leerhsen and a pair of skeptical filmmakers, Stephen Barker Turner and Tristen Skyler.
		The power of The Blair Witch Project depended on the ability of viewers to identify with the characters, and anyone who's ever been on a bad camping trip could do that.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_10.26.00/film/bwitch2.html (627 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Son of a Witch, by Gregory Maguire, Hardcover
		Son of a Witch unspools the story of Liir, an adolescent boy who is discovered battered and comatose a decade after Elphaba melted into oblivion.
		Liir, who may or may not be the son of the Wicked Witch of the West, is read with a detached, depressed air, an adolescent with ennui looking for his lost half-sister, Nor.
		I really loved Wicked, and so I was ecstatic to finally read Son of a Witch and perhaps answer some of the questions left unanswered in the first book.
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	Howl - Son of a Witch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Wicked is about a land where animals talk and strive to be treated like first-class citizens, Munchkinlanders seek the comfort of middle-class stability, and the Tin Man becomes the victim of domestic violence.
		And then there is the little green-skinned girl named Elphaba, who will grow up to become the infamous Wicked Witch of the West, a smart, prickly, and misunderstood creature who challenges all our preconceived notions about the nature of good and evil.
		Son of a Witch is just...awesome...I seriously couldn't put it down for the last 100 pages or so.
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