Lion Among Men (The Wicked Years #3)

Author: Gregory Maguire

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Price : 27.00 NZD
ISBN : 9780061987410
Publisher : Harper
Imprint : Harper
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Weight (g) : 0.191
Publication date : 01 October 2010
Dimensions : 170mm X 107mm X 28mm
Produced in : United States
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Availability date : 01 December 2010
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Author : Gregory Maguire
Series : The Wicked Years
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Dewey classification : 813.54
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Pages : 400
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Description

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.

Reviews

"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." -- New Orleans Times-Picayune

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