From the multi-million-copy bestselling author of Wicked comes a
magical new twist on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, published to
coincide with the 150th anniversary of Lewis's Carroll's beloved
classic.
When Alice toppled down the rabbit-hole 150 years ago, she found a
Wonderland as rife with inconsistent rules and abrasive egos as the
world she left behind. But what of that world? How did 1860s Oxford
react to Alice's disappearance?
In this brilliant work of fiction, Gregory Maguire turns his dazzling
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 of Alice's mentioned
briefly in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, is off to visit her
friend, but arrives a moment too late--and 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 see her safely
home from this surreal world below the world. If Eurydice can ever be
returned to the arms of Orpheus, or Lazarus can be raised from the tomb,
perhaps Alice can be returned to life. Either way, everything that
happens next is "After Alice."
