The gray-tint, cross-hatched drawings evoke George Cruikshank and Samuel Palmer, but the mordancy is vintage Sendak. Higglety Pigglety Pop! Or There Must Be More to Life by Maurice Sendak (1967)Ī Sealyham terrier, Jennie, adventures into the trippy afterlife to find that mortal appetites are eternal after all. It probably inspired me to risk my own appropriation of Oz. The story is audaciously retold, as if the Arthurian cycle were not already one of our foundational myths. I chose White's tragicomedy of the education, rise, and death of King Arthur. In the 1970s, teen geek readers swore either by J.R.R. His new novel, The Oracle of Maracoor, continues the adventures of Rain, granddaughter of the Wicked Witch of the West. Gregory Maguire is the author of Wicked, the revisionist Wizard of Oz tale adapted into a long-running Broadway musical.
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