WAS A NOVEL

by Geoff Ryman

$25 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. WAS ingeniously ties together several strands of history and fantasy into a brilliant book. Beginning with the notion that the character of Dorothy in L. Frank Baum's Oz books was based on an actual girl Baum met in Kansas, the novel weaves her sad story with both the mythos of the Oz books and with Hollywood, in particular through the lives of

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