03462cam a22004458i 4500 23557430 DLC 20260618122415.0 t| 240209s2024 nyu 000 1 eng 2024005381 9780063377011 hardcover deluxe limited edition 9780063445826 hardcover 9780063377035 e-pub DLC eng rda DLC DLC DLC-MRC pcc PS3563.A3535 E47 2024 813/.54 23/eng/20240212 Maguire, Gregory author aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78025316 http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/n78025316 Elphie : a Wicked childhood / Gregory Maguire. First edition. 1111 New York, NY : William Morrow, 2024. pages cm single unit mono http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/issuance/mono text txt rdacontent http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/contentTypes/txt unmediated n rdamedia http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/mediaTypes/n volume nc rdacarrier http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/carriers/nc Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, will grow to have a feisty and somewhat uncompromising character in adult life. But she is always a one-off, from her infancy; Elphie is the riveting coming-of-age story of a very peculiar and relatable young girl. Young Elphie is shaped and molded by the behaviors of her promiscuous mother, Melena, and her pious father, Frex. She suffers ordinary childhood jealousies when her sister, saintly Nessarose, and brother, junior felon Shell, arrive. She first encounters the mistreatment of the Animal populations of Oz, which live adjacent to but not intertwined with human settlements, haunted by a Monkey and receiving aid from Dwarf Bears. She thrashes through her first bruising attempts at friendship, a possible lifeline from her tricky family life. And she gleans the benefits of an education, haphazard though it must be—until she arrives at the doors of Shiz University, about to meet the radiant creature that is Galinda. Elphie is destined to be a witch; she bears the markings from childhood—most evidently in her green skin but more obscurely and profoundly in her cunning and perhaps amoral behaviors, as she seeks to make do, to slip by, to sneak out, to endure, and to aspire. Fiction lcgft http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026339 Fantasy fiction lcgft http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026333 Novels lcgft http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2015026020 Prequel to Maguire, Gregory. Wicked http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/prequelto http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/f099f316-79b7-6ebc-5dfc-6c7388022a3d http://id.loc.gov/resources/instances/23557430 http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe/instanceOf http://id.loc.gov/resources/works/23557430 DLC bibframe2marc v3.1-dev 20251204 DLC https://github.com/lcnetdev/bibframe2marc/tree/v3.1-dev 0 vip orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK 0 3249 3249 0 0 ddc 0 0 RGS RGS YA 2026-06-18 Book Xcess 29.90 0 FIC MAG 3466 2026-06-18 12:25:23 30.00 2026-06-18 BK