“Maguire’s function is melodic, symphonic, and beautiful; it is dejected and biting and fearless. How great that people flock to these marvelous novels.”

-Los Angeles Occasions Book Review

Bestselling author Gregory Maguire’s remarkable series, The Wicked Years, comes full circle with this, his fourth and last excursion across a darker, richer, more technical scenery of “the magical land of Oz.” Out of Oz brilliantly reimagines L. Frank Baum’s world within the rainbow as wracked with cultural unrest-placing Glinda the nice witch under home arrest and getting the cowardly Lion within the lam from the law as the Emerald City prepares to create war on Munchkinland. Even Dorothy makes a triumphant come back in Maguire’s wonderful Oz finale-tying up every loose green end from the series he began with his classic Wicked, the foundation for the smash hit Broadway musical.