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File Size: 565 KB
Print Length: 385 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1931520739
Publisher: Small Beer Press; 20th Anniversary edition (September 16, 2013)
Publication Date: September 16, 2013
Language: English
ASIN: B00BAZV4FY
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"Was" is a memorable take on "The Wizard of Oz." It connects Dorothy Gael of Kansas and Oz author L. Frank Baum with the actress Judy Garland and two men in more recent times, a psychiatrist named Bill who met the elderly Dorothy, and Jonathan, a young man struggling with AIDS, searching for both Dorothy and that elusive rainbow.The story is very intricately structured. It switches between 1870s and `80s Kansas, California and MGM in the 1930s and `50s, Ontario in the 1960s and finally, Kansas again in 1989. It takes a while to see how all the characters and elements of the story fit together but has a very dramatic and moving climax.The author depicts a hard, traumatic life on the prairie for young Dorothy which is later transformed and idealized by Baum into his immortal tale of Dorothy and the Wizard. Garland is seen, too, as emotionally scarred by her home life and the loss of her father. Jonathan was a sensitive child with a fascination for the movie "Oz" who has made pilgrimages to Garland sites. When he learns his doctor Bill met the real Dorothy, he sets out to find the original home of Dorothy, Aunty Em and Uncle Henry in rural Kansas.As the title "Was" suggests, the story - multiple stories really - are nostalgic and even mournful in tone. Lost childhoods, harsh realities and the elusiveness of happy endings are dominant themes. For me it was almost like reading one of Thomas Hardy's tragic novels. I hope that doesn't put readers off. There is a beauty and depth and compassion to Ryman's writing that make the book very worthwhile. Highly recommended, especially for those who love the "Oz" tales and revisionist epics like "Wicked."
On one level, I cannot believe only one person has ever recommended this novel to me. On another level, I'm surprised I was able to endure this heart-wrenching story at all.Geoff Ryman presents a harshly real-life, imaginary story surrounding to Dorothy of L. Frank Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz". Rather than an overdone retelling of the Oz story, Ryman explores a much more human question: why might the mind wish to escape its gray "Kansas" and pursue the magical color of Oz? This leads the reader into some of the hardest questions facing us as a society including death, mental illness, abuse, and sexual orientation.Told from the perspectives of many characters (Judy Garland's makeup artist, a worker in a mental hospital, and Dorothy Gael herself), this novel has the reader wishing this WAS the true story behind Baum's classic novel and MGM's classic movie. Never have I seen an author provide more realistic insight into the minds of young children, victims of abuse, the terminally ill, and the clinically insane. "Was" is a fantastic blend of the beauty of fiction and the shattering honesty of biography. A truly excellent novel.
In The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz by L. Frank Baum the fictional Dorothy spends just four pages in Kansas with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry before a cyclone takes her to Oz, a country of marvelous beauty. This novel explores the life of a fictional Dorothy who never escapes the harsh reality of her life in Kansas except in the world of her imagination.WAS mixes a historian's dedicated search for details with a fictional story that spans a century to create a sweeping novel of the American experience. Ryman focuses on the tragedy of his characters' lives to help us understand our collective need for a fairy land like OZ where love and kindness are the rule. Using carefully researched historical details Ryman builds a truly believable but sadly horrific story of a fictional Dorothy Gael of Kansas. Placing her in such accurate settings gives incredible power to her story and the stories of those her life inspires. Drawn into the vortex of her tragedy are a mixture of real and fictional characters including L. Frank Baum (the writer of the original Oz novels), the young Judy Garland, an actor with AIDS who is compelled to play the Scarecrow, and his psychotherapist who met the elderly Dorothy just before she dies. The story takes place in the 1870s, the 1920s, the 1950s, and the 1980s. Yet these disparate plots and eras are tied together wonderfully and all given a sense of reality based on the historic research that went into the book.In a postscript called Reality Check at the end of the book the writer sorts out the historic from the fictional. Here he also talks a bit about the philosophy he has toward fantasy and realism, a theme that is constantly addressed throughout the novel. This is not about Oz, except as an ideal. The novel is about the tragedy of life, and it explores why the pain of our lives makes Oz so important to us all.
I actually read Was for the first time around 20 years. After that, I read it three more times. When I was purging (cleaning out and getting rid of things I didn't need), I gave away this book. I regretted that. That is why I ordered a hard copy, so that I could not only read it again, but have it available to reread after that.
This book takes a strong person to read it through. I have had so many friends HIT ME after I have told them to read it because it isn't the story you're expecting...quite the opposite, unfortunately. It shows the other side of the rainbow & what might have become of Dorothy. Plus, it is actually three stories in one, as it interweaves the journeys of not only Dorothy, but Judy Garland as well, & tells the story of a man with AIDS, who sets off on a journey of his own. Just an incredible book...I find that it is the kind of book that every 5 years or so, I end up re-reading, it's that good!!
Where to begin? Its rare that a book can move me to tears but this one did. Its a little disjointed at first but all comes together after the first 100 pages. Aids is not the central theme, after having read Child Garden, I wonder if cancer and terminal illness are not a central theme in Mr Ryman's books. There is mystery as well, so what does happen next? I highly recomend this, and any book by this author. Looking forward to AIR, which I hope will be published soon.
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