Gregory Maguire is a bestselling author who has earned rave reviews and a dedicated following for Wicked, the first novel in the Wicked Years quartet (which also included Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men and Out of Oz), that was made into an award-winning musical. He received his doctorate in English Literature from Tufts University, and has taught at Simmons College and other Boston area colleges. He has also served as an artist-in-residence at the Blue Mountain Center, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the Hambridge Center. Gregory has lived in Dublin and London, but now makes his home near Boston, Massachusetts, with his partner, their two sons and daughter.
Alice doesn't live here anymore-and Maguire has great fun upending
the furniture to find out where she's gone. Continuing his
tradition of rewriting fairy tales with an arch eye and offbeat
point of view, Maguire turns his attention to Lewis Carroll and
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland... A brilliant and nicely
off-kilter reading of the children's classic, retrofitted for
grown-ups-and a lot of fun
*Kirkus (starred review)*
Thoughtful and disconcertingly memorable... This is a feast for the
mind, and readers will ruminate on it long after turning the last
page
*Publishers Weekly (starred review)*
Maguire effortlessly leaps between the absurd illusions of
Wonderland and the building suspense of the search for the children
in antique Oxford... [He] closes in on some big, haunting ideas
himself, about the loss of loved ones and religious faith, about
cultural and romantic subjugations, and about the evolutionary
value of imagination... [A] harvest of delightfully stated
observations, [confronting] weighty themes with a light touch and
exquisite, lovely language. [Maguire's] playful vocabulary may be
-Carroll-esque, but his keen wit is closer to Monty Python, with a
fine, unforced sense of play... his erudition is a joy, his sense
of fun infectious
*New York Times Book Review*
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