A Lion Among Men: Volume Three in The Wicked Years by Gregory Maguire Paperback Book

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Rent A Lion Among Men: Volume Three in The Wicked Years

Author: Gregory Maguire

Format: Mass Market Paperback, Unabridged-CD

Publisher: Harper

Published: Sep 2009

Genre: Fiction - General

Retail Price: $8.99

Pages: 384

Synopsis

While civil war looms in Oz, Brrr—the Cowardly Lion—surrenders the story of his life to a tetchy oracle named Yackle. Abandoned as a cub, Brrr's path from infancy in the Great Gillikan Forest is no Yellow Brick Road. Seeking to redress an early mistake, he trudges through a swamp of ghosts, becomes implicated in a massacre of trolls, falls in love with a forbidding Cat princess, and avoids a jail sentence by agreeing to serve as a lackey to the war-mongering Emperor of Oz.

A portrait of a would-be survivor and a panoramic glimpse of a world gone shrill with war fever, Gregory Maguire's A Lion Among Men is written with the sympathy and power that have made his books contemporary classics.

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