Son of a Witch

MAGUIRE, Gregory. Son of a Witch. A Novel. [NY]: Regan Books [2005]. 8vo, xii 337pp. Color pictorial boards. Illustrated map endpapers. A fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket. Signed by the author, Gregory Maguire! First edition. The second book in Maguire's best-selling Wicked Years series, and the follow-up to Wicked!A decade after the Witch has melted away, the young man Liir is discovered bruised, comatose, and left for dead in a gully. Shattered in spirit as well as in form, he is tended by the mysterious Candle, a foundling in her own right, until failed campaigns of his childhood bear late, unexpected fruit. Liir is only one part of the world that Elphaba left behind. As a boy hardly in his teens, he is asked to help the needy in ways in which he may be unskilled. Is he Elphaba’s son? Has he power of his own? Can he liberate Princess Nastoya into a dignified death? Can he locate his supposed half-sister, Nor, last seen in shackles in the Wizard’s protection? Can he