{"title":"Gregory Maguire PDF E-Books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"a-wild-winter-swan","title":"A Wild Winter Swan","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter brilliantly reimagining the worlds of Oz, Wonderland, Dickensian London, and the Nutcracker, the New York Times bestselling author of Wicked turns his unconventional genius to Hans Christian Andersen's \"The Wild Swans,\" transforming this classic tale into an Italian-American girl's poignant coming-of-age story, set amid the magic of Christmas in 1960s New York.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFollowing her brother's death and her mother's emotional breakdown, Laura now lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, in a lonely townhouse she shares with her old-world, strict, often querulous grandparents. But the arrangement may be temporary. The quiet, awkward teenager has been getting into trouble at home and has been expelled from her high school for throwing a record album at a popular girl who bullied her. When Christmas is over and the new year begins, Laura may find herself at boarding school in Montreal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNearly unmoored from reality through her panic and submerged grief, Laura is startled when a handsome swan boy with only one wing lands on her roof. Hiding him from her ever-bickering grandparents, Laura tries to build the swan boy a wing so he can fly home. But the task is too difficult to accomplish herself. Little does Laura know that her struggle to find help for her new friend parallels that of her grandparents, who are desperate for a distant relative's financial aid to save the family store.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs he explores themes of class, isolation, family, and the dangerous yearning to be saved by a power greater than ourselves, Gregory Maguire conjures a haunting, beautiful tale of magical realism that illuminates one young woman's heartbreak and hope as she begins the inevitable journey to adulthood.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Good E-Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51891476693266,"sku":null,"price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/1009\/1026\/files\/AWildWinterSwan.jpg?v=1768383754"},{"product_id":"wicked","title":"Wicked","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Maguire did something truly remarkable with this novel, in managing to inhabit, enlarge, deepen and find new dimensions in a world that had been invented by another writer, and in doing so make something entirely new. It's an astonishing achievement.\" -\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA special 25th anniversary hardcover edition of the beloved multi-million-copy-bestselling novel and basis of the Tony Award-winning musical--including a new essay from Gregory Maguire on the nature of fantasy, \"The World at Hand, the World Next Door.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGregory Maguire's groundbreaking New York Times bestseller redefines the land of Oz, its inhabitants, its Wizard, and the Emerald City, viewing the world created by L. Frank Baum through a darker and greener lens. Brilliantly inventive, Wicked offers a radical new portrait of one of the most feared and despised villains in all of literature: the universally maligned Wicked Witch of the West who, in Maguire's imaginative retelling, isn't nearly as black-hearted as we imagined.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Good E-Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51891478987026,"sku":null,"price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/1009\/1026\/files\/Wicked.jpg?v=1768383878"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.goode-books.com\/collections\/gregory-maguire-pdf-e-books.oembed","provider":"Good E-Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}