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In a dangerous Oz, there's no place like home

By Sarah Smith
October 16, 2005

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Son of a Witch By Gregory Maguire HarperCollins, 334 pp., $26.95 It's an awkward thing to be a fairy-tale villain. Evil, like goodness, flattens the character; a villain can't blow his nose without trying (and failing) to destroy the universe. But how does a person become wicked? (Full article: 923 words)

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