The last of Maguire's Oz books is now published.
From a piece in the San Francisco Chronicle...
"When I started writing the series, I didn't recognize it as a series," Maguire says. "The subtitle of 'Wicked' is 'The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.' And her times were still going on, even if her life was unnaturally abbreviated."
Maguire followed "Wicked" with 2005's "Son of a Witch" and 2008's "A Lion Among Men." "Out of Oz" follows Elphaba's granddaughter Rain as she struggles to fulfill her destiny in a land thrown into chaos. While Maguire is reluctant to call his novel an allegory, he does say the land of Oz reflects America well.
"As the tone of our civic conversation got more rancorous, my belief got stronger that Oz is really a perfect sort of metaphor or stand-in for the United States," he says.
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