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New York Times Bestseller
Focusing on the Cowardly Lion, the third in the Wicked Years series which started with Wicked, the multimillion-copybestseller and basis for the Tony Awardwinning hit musical, soon to be a major motion picture starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande.
In A Lion Among Men Gregory Maguire continues to flesh out the world of Oz, seen this time through the eyes of the Cowardly Lionremembered from Wicked as a tiny cub defended by Elphaba.
While civil war looms in Oz, an ancient and tetchy oracle named Yackle prepares for death. Before she can return to dust, however, the Cowardly Lionan enigmatic figure named Brrrarrives in search of information about Elphaba Thropp, the Wicked Witch of the West. As payment, Yackle who hovered on the sidelines of Elphabas life, demands some answers of her own.
Abandoned as a cub, Brrrs earliest memories are only gluey hazes. Bu
