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Was : A Novel 🔍
Geoff Ryman Small Beer Press, Lightning Source (Tier 4), [N.p.], 2013
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Dotty, old and maybe crazy, sees The Wizard of Oz on TV, and recognizes it as her own story.Was is a haunting novel which explores the lives of characters intertwined with The Wizard of Oz: the “real” Dorothy Gale; Judy Garland’s unhappy fame; and Jonathan, a dying actor, and his therapist, whose work at an asylum unwittingly intersects with the Yellow Brick Road.
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Ryman, Geoff
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Peapod Press
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Jelly Ink
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Place of publication not identified, 2013
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United States, United States of America
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Easthampton, MA, Massachusetts, 2012
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20th Anniversary, 2013
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Northampton, 2012
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"Dorothy Gael, an orphan churning with rage and self-hatred, is repeatedly sexually abused by her Uncle Henry on their Kansas farm. Sadistic, sanctimonious Aunty Em, who dislikes Dorothy's dog Toto, looks the other way. Rewriting the Oz story as a somber gothic fantasy rich in period detail, Ryman casts Baum as a substitute teacher who rescues Dorothy from life as a prostitute on the 1880s Kansas frontier. But Dorothy ends up in a mental institution where, as Old Dotty, she will be discovered in 1956 by Bill Davison, a caring attendant. In a parallel story set in the 1980s, Jonathan, a gay, Canadian-born horror-film actor dying of AIDS, enters therapy with Bill, now a Los Angeles psychiatrist, who instructs him to visualize that he's in Oz to reenact a childhood obsession. Desperately seeking home, various characters--both real (Judy Garland) and fictional--follow the yellow brick roads of their heart's desires and converge in Kansas."--Publisher's Weekly
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"A moving lament for lost childhoods and an eloquent tribute to the enduring power of art."— The New York Times
"Staggeringly original and profound...Extraordinary, wonderful." — Time Out
"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
A haunting novel exploring the lives of characters intertwined with The Wizard of Oz : the "real" Dorothy Gale; Judy Garland's unhappy fame; and Jonathan, a dying actor, and his therapist, whose work at an asylum unwittingly intersects with the Yellow Brick Road.
Geoff Ryman is the author of The King's Last Song , Air , The Child Garden , The Unconquered Country , and Paradise Tales . He has lived in Cambodia and Brazil, and now teaches at the University of Manchester, England.
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<DIV><li>Solid backlist title that has consistently sold for 20 years. <BR><li>Coincidentally: it's a 20th anniversary edition!<BR><li>Designed to match Ryman's novel <EM>The King's Last Song</EM> and collection <EM>Paradise Tales</EM>.<BR></DIV>
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2024-05-20
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