Was

Geoff Ryman

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Dotty, old and maybe crazy, sees The Wizard of Oz on TV, and recognizes it as her own story.

Book Details

Publisher: Small Beer Press
Publish Date: Aug 11st, 2015
Pages: 386
Language: English
Edition: Anniversary - 0020
Dimensions: 8.40in - 5.40in - 1.00in - 1.00lb
EAN: 9781931520737
Categories: • Literary• Historical - General• Family Life - General

Praise for this book

"A startling, stimulating book filled with angels and scarecrows, gargoyles and garlands, vaudeville and violence. Pynchon goes Munchkin, you might say."
-Washington Post Book World
"In an era of bright, simple adaptations, Was is different--melancholy,
beautiful, and yes, full of heartaches and nightmares. If we were to put
those green glasses back on to block them out, we would leave ourselves
knowing so much less about why such Technicolor stories matter to us,
even long after childhood."

--Slate"The Scarecrow of Oz dying of AIDS in Santa Monica? Uncle Henry a child abuser? Dorothy, grown old and crazy, wearing out her last days in a Kansas nursing home? It's all here, in this magically revisionist fantasy on the themes from The Wizard of Oz."
--Kirkus Reviews
"Ryman's darkly imaginative, almost surreal improvisation on L. Frank Baum's Oz books combines a stunning portrayal of child abuse, Wizard of Oz film lore and a polyphonic meditation on the psychological burden of the past."
--Publishers Weekly
"A mediation on art, lies and human pain. None of Ryman's books is quite like any of the others--this is one of his most straightforward and best"
--Roz Kaveneny, Time Out