After Alice

Цена 24.49 USD

EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9781472230447

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Год выпуска 2015

Форма выпуска 160x240

From the multimillion-copy bestselling author of Wicked comes a magical new twist on Alice"s Adventures in Wonderland, published to coincide with the 150-th anniversary of Lewis Carroll"s beloved classic. When Alice fell down the rabbit hole, she found Wonderland as rife with inconsistent rules and abrasive egos as the world she left behind. But how did Victorian Oxford react to Alice"s disappearance? Gregory Maguire turns his imagination to the question of underworlds, undergrounds, underpinnings - and understandings old and new, offering an inventive spin on Carroll"s enduring tale. Ada, a friend mentioned briefly in Alice"s Adventures in Wonderland, sets out to visit Alice but, arriving a moment too late, tumbles down the rabbit hole herself. Ada brings to Wonderland her own imperfect apprehension of cause and effect as she embarks on an odyssey to find Alice and bring her safely home from this surreal world below the world. The White Rabbit, the...