nThis is the book that started it all The basis for the smash hit Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, Gregory Maguires breathtaking New York Times bestseller Wicked views the land of Oz, its inhabitants, its Wizard, and the Emerald City, through a darker and greener (not rosier) lens. Brilliantly inventive, Wicked offers us a radical new evaluation of one of the most feared and hated characters in all of literature: the much maligned Wicked Witch of the West who, as Maguire tells us, wasnt nearly as Wicked as we imagined. nThis is the book that started it all The basis for the smash hit Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, Gregory Maguires breathtaking New York Times bestseller Wicked views the land of Oz, its inhabitants, its Wizard, and the Emerald City, through a darker and greener (not rosier) lens. Brilliantly inventive, Wicked offers us a radical new evaluation of one of the most feared and hated characters in all of literature: the much maligned Wicked Witch of the West who, as Maguire tells us, wasnt nearly as Wicked as we imagined.--Winnie Holzman, co-writer of Wicked: The Musical nThis is the book that started it all The basis for the smash hit Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, Gregory Maguires breathtaking New York Times bestseller Wicked views the land of Oz, its inhabitants, its Wizard, and the Emerald City, through a darker and greener (not rosier) lens. Brilliantly inventive, Wicked offers us a radical new evaluation of one of the most feared and hated characters in all of literature: the much maligned Wicked Witch of the West who, as Maguire tells us, wasnt nearly as Wicked as we imagined.--Winnie Holzman, co-writer of Wicked: The Musical nThis is the book that started it all The basis for the smash hit Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, Gregory Maguires breathtaking New York Times bestseller Wicked views the land of Oz, its inhabitants, its Wizard, and the Emerald City, through a darker and greener (not rosier) lens. Brilliantly inventive, Wicked offers us a radical new evaluation of one of the most feared and hated characters in all of literature: the much maligned Wicked Witch of the West who, as Maguire tells us, wasnt nearly as Wicked as we imagined.--Winnie Holzman, co-writer of Wicked: The Musical nThis is the book that started it all The basis for the smash hit Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, Gregory Maguires breathtaking New York Times bestseller Wicked views the land of Oz, its inhabitants, its